1 Posadis is a DNS server project with the goal to create a free,
2 reliable, portable, fast, lightweight, easy to use, standards compliant,
3 and functionally complete, Domain Name System server implementation.
5 The Top-10 of most important Posadis features:
6 - Support for the standard DNS master file format. Posadis supports
7 some BIND extensions as well.
8 - Support for zone transfers. Posadis is able to answer both AXFR and IXFR
9 queries (though it always sends the complete zone), and it is able to act as
10 a secondary using AXFR and IXFR as well.
11 - Support for DNS NOTIFY to ensure fast zone change propagation.
12 - Support for most standard RR types: A, NS, MD, MF, CNAME, SOA, NULL, WKS,
13 PTR, HINFO, MX, TXT, RP, AFSDB, PX, AAAA, SRV, NAPTR, A6 and DNAME. Posadis
14 can also tunnel RR types it doesn't recognize.
15 - Support for many platforms: both Windows and Unix-like platforms such as
16 Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X.
17 - Support for IPv6: listning on IPv6 sockets for both Windows and Unix, and
18 support for AAAA and A6 resource records and bitstring labels.
19 - "Tunnel zones": forward queries to other nameservers.
20 - "Hint zones": hint to other nameservers. Posadis can automatically update the
21 nameserver list for hint zones.
22 - Support for both UDP and TCP: you can specify on which IP addresses and ports
23 you want Posadis to listen.
24 - A concise and up-to-date user manual describing all of Posadis' features in
27 WWW: http://posadis.sourceforge.net/