A simple and fast dns cache server written by go.

Similar as dnsmasq ,but support some difference features:

• Keep hosts records in redis instead of the local file /etc/hosts

• Atuo-Reload when hosts configuration changed. (Yes,dnsmasq need restart)

• Cache records save in memory or redis configurable

1. Install

    $ go get github.com/kenshinx/godns
   

2. Build

    $ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/kenshinx/godns 
    $ go build -o godns *.go
   

3. Running

    $ sudo ./godns -c godns.conf
   

4. Use

    $ sudo vi /etc/resolv.conf
    nameserver 127.0.0.1
   

All the configuration on godns.conf a TOML formating config file.
More about Toml :https://github.com/mojombo/toml

Upstream server can be configuration by change file from somewhere other that "/etc/resolv.conf"

[resolv]
resolv-file = "/etc/resolv.conf"

If multi namerserver set at resolv.conf, the upsteam server will try in order of up to botton

Only the local memory storage backend implemented now. The redis backend is in todo list

[cache]
backend = "memory"   
expire = 600  # default expire time 10 minutes
maxcount = 100000

Force resolv domain to assigned ip, support two types hosts configuration:

• locale hosts file
• remote redis hosts

hosts file

can be assigned at godns.conf,default : /etc/hosts

[hosts]
host-file = "/etc/hosts"

redis hosts

This is a espeical requirment in our system. Must maintain a gloab hosts configuration, and support update the hosts record from other remote server. so "redis-hosts" is be supported, and will query the reids when each dns request reached.

The hosts record is organized with redis hash map. and the key of the map is configured.

[hosts]
redis-key = "godns:hosts"

Insert hosts records into redis

redis > hset godns:hosts www.sina.com.cn 1.1.1.1

Debug close

$ go test -bench=.

testing: warning: no tests to run
PASS
BenchmarkDig-8     50000             57945 ns/op
ok      _/usr/home/keqiang/godns        3.259s

The result : 15342 queries/per second

The enviroment of test:

CentOS release 6.4

• CPU:
  Intel Xeon 2.40GHZ 4 cores

• MEM:
  46G

Joke: A web console for godns

https://github.com/kenshinx/joke

screenshot

Deployment in productive supervisord highly recommended.

[program:godns]
command=/usr/local/bin/godns -c /etc/godns.conf
autostart=true
autorestart=true
user=root
stdout_logfile_maxbytes = 50MB
stdoiut_logfile_backups = 20
stdout_logfile = /var/log/godns.log

• The redis cache backend
• Update ttl