Free DNS server for Windows XP/Vista/Win7?

dns subdomain sysadmin
JohannesH picture JohannesH · Dec 15, 2008 · Viewed 64k times · Source

I'm currently developing a security solution that should work across domains and as such I need a small private dns server to add various entries to. I could alter the hosts file to achieve the same result but since the hosts file doesn't support wildcard chars I will have a whole lot of entries, so a DNS server that supports wildcards would be a little bit easier. Any suggestions?

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user1093284 picture user1093284 · Dec 20, 2011

As a reference: http://sourceforge.net/projects/acrylic/

Acrylic is a local DNS proxy which improves the performance of your computer by caching the responses coming from your DNS servers.

I found it to work flawless on every Windows system from XP up to Win8, and it's open source.

And yes, it supports wildcards... it even supports regex for domain names.

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