dnsdist-utils

The awesome dnsdist DNS proxy/load balancer has almost every feature one could need for DNS, except of course the one that is useful for a small, forwarding-proxy-only home lab: exporting a central list of inhouse hosts to your own DNS, like e.g dnsmasq does by default. Lua scripting to the rescue!

Usage

• Add the .lua files either:
  • somewhere on your default Lua module path (e.g. /usr/local/share/lua/5.1/)
  • to your /etc/dnsdist directory and edit dnsdist.conf to include the directory:

-- Add dnsdist config dir to Lua search path
package.path = package.path .. ";/etc/dnsdist/?.lua"

• Expose entries from /etc/hosts:

require "hosts"
addHosts("/etc/hosts")

• Block a single domain, either interactively on the console or explicitly in the config:

blockDomain("instagramm.net")

• Block domains from a file:

blockDomains("/etc/dnsdist/blocked.conf")

The list of blocked domains is a plain file with one entry per line, e.g.:

#
# blocked domains
#
badwarez.net
facebork.net
gurgle.com

• Extend DNS record TTLs, e.g. to set the minimum TTL for DNS responses to 3600 seconds:

require "ttl"
setMinTTL(3600)

• Easily set common default options for upstream servers:

require "servers"
-- set default options once instead of repeating them for every server
setDefaultServerOptions({
	healthCheckMode="lazy",
	checkInterval=60,
	maxCheckFailures=2,
	lazyHealthCheckFailedInterval=60,
	lazyHealthCheckUseExponentialBackOff=true,
	lazyHealthCheckThreshold=3,
	weight=1000})
-- add server with default options
addServer({address="1.1.1.1"})
-- add server with overridden default option
addServer({address="8.8.8.8", weight=2000})

Done! Your dnsdist instance will now serve all non-localhost entries, which you can inspect on the console via showRules() or the Web UI.