YADIFA

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Developer(s) EURid		Development status Active
Original author(s) Gery Van Emelen, Eric Diaz Fernandez Initial release 2012; 5 years ago (2012) Stable release 2.2.3 / December 15, 2016; 3 months ago (2016-12-15) Repository github.com/yadifa/yadifa

YADIFA /jɑːˈdiːfɑː/ is an acronym and stands for Yet Another DNS Implementation For All.

YADIFA is a lightweight authoritative Name Server, written in C (programming language), with DNSSEC capabilities. Developed by the passionate people behind the .eu top-level domain, YADIFA has been built from scratch to face today’s DNS challenges, with no compromise on security, speed and stability, to offer a better and safer Internet experience.

YADIFA has a simple configuration syntax and can handle more queries per second while maintaining one of the lowest memory footprints in the industry.

YADIFA has one of the fastest zone file load times ever recorded on a name server.

Features

Efficient

Low memory footprint

Fast loading of zones

Very high response rates

Authoritative name server (master and slave) with full AXFR/IXFR/DNS notify/TSIG support

Multi master support

Dynamic Updates (DNS update) with full DNSSEC support

NSID

DNSSEC Compliant

Full NSEC support

Full NSEC3 support

Policies for automatic key generation

Diary schedules

Relative schedules

Ability to chose key algorithm, length

Ability to set denial parameters (NSEC3 salt, iterations, ...)

Smart Signing

Generate NSEC/NSEC3/RRSIG records

Maintain RRSIG signatures

Automatic key-roll (Publish, Activate, Deactivate, Remove)

Supported Algorithms

DSASHA1 NSEC (algorithm 3)

DSASHA1 NSEC3 (algorithm 6)

RSASHA1 NSEC (algorithm 5)

RSASHA1 NSEC3 (algorithm 7)

RSASHA256 NSEC/NSEC3 (algorithm 8)

RSASHA512 NSEC/NSEC3 (algorithm 10)

ECDSAP256SHA256 NSEC/NSEC3 (algorithm 13)

ECDSAP384SHA384 NSEC/NSEC3 (algorithm 14)

Runs on many platforms

Linux

*BSD (FreeBSD/OpenBSD)

OsX

Solaris (x86/SPARC)

References

YADIFA Wikipedia

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