hickory-dns

dns dns-client dns-server dnssec dynamic-dns hickory-dns rust rust-lang trust-dns

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A Rust based DNS client, server, and resolver

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/hickory-dns/hickory-dns
Owner: hickory-dns
License: other
Created: 2015-08-08T02:47:12.000Z (about 11 years ago)
Default Branch: main
Last Pushed: 2026-09-25T05:08:05.000Z (3 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-09-25T08:59:39.907Z (2 days ago)
Topics: dns, dns-client, dns-server, dnssec, dynamic-dns, hickory-dns, rust, rust-lang, trust-dns
Language: Rust
Homepage:
Size: 26 MB
Stars: 5,427
Watchers: 49
Forks: 635
Open Issues: 392
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE-APACHE
- Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
- Audit: audit/2024-10-25-x41.pdf
- Codeowners: .github/CODEOWNERS
- Security: SECURITY.md
- Copyright: copyright.txt

Owner metadata:

Name: Hickory DNS
Login: hickory-dns
Email:
Kind: organization
Description: Hickory DNS is a safe and secure DNS project supporting modern DNS features, like DoH and DoQ
Website: https://www.hickory-dns.org
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Twitter:
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Icon url: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/133828474?v=4
Repositories: 7
Last Synced at: 2026-09-25T11:55:58.982Z
Profile URL: https://github.com/hickory-dns

GitHub Events

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Create event: 1014
Delete event: 1007
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Issue comment event: 935
Issues event: 266
Member event: 2
Pull request event: 1099
Pull request review comment event: 1077
Pull request review event: 1309
Push event: 1077
Release event: 8
Watch event: 775
Total: 8669

Last Year

Create event: 243
Delete event: 244
Fork event: 27
Issue comment event: 120
Issues event: 23
Pull request event: 158
Pull request review comment event: 220
Pull request review event: 211
Push event: 199
Release event: 1
Watch event: 127
Total: 1573

Committers metadata

Last synced: 1 day ago

Total Commits: 5,936
Total Committers: 284
Avg Commits per committer: 20.901
Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.741

Commits in past year: 1,078
Committers in past year: 59
Avg Commits per committer in past year: 18.271
Development Distribution Score (DDS) in past year: 0.605

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Issue and Pull Request metadata

Last synced: 1 day ago

Total issues: 414
Total pull requests: 1,848
Average time to close issues: 4 months
Average time to close pull requests: 13 days
Total issue authors: 186
Total pull request authors: 142
Average comments per issue: 2.25
Average comments per pull request: 1.25
Merged pull request: 1,328
Bot issues: 0
Bot pull requests: 274

Past year issues: 90
Past year pull requests: 292
Past year average time to close issues: 11 days
Past year average time to close pull requests: 4 days
Past year issue authors: 48
Past year pull request authors: 57
Past year average comments per issue: 2.86
Past year average comments per pull request: 1.24
Past year merged pull request: 194
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Past year bot pull requests: 55

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Package metadata

Total packages: 16
Total downloads:
- cargo: 190,647,815 total
Total docker downloads: 60,621,457
Total dependent packages: 104 (may contain duplicates)
Total dependent repositories: 1,523 (may contain duplicates)
Total versions: 254
Total maintainers: 2
Total advisories: 5

crates.io: async-std-resolver

Hickory DNS is a safe and secure DNS library, for async-std. This Resolver library uses the hickory-proto library to perform all DNS queries. The Resolver is intended to be a high-level library for any DNS record resolution see Resolver and AsyncResolver for supported resolution types. The Client can be used for other queries.

Homepage: https://hickory-dns.org/
Documentation: https://docs.rs/async-std-resolver/
Licenses: MIT OR Apache-2.0
Latest release: 0.24.4 (published over 1 year ago)
Last Synced: 2026-09-26T10:04:33.307Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 39
Dependent Packages: 13
Dependent Repositories: 1,478
Downloads: 3,835,053 Total
Docker Downloads: 23,282,865
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 1.049%
- Downloads: 1.346%
- Average: 2.109%
- Docker downloads count: 2.179%
- Stargazers count: 2.239%
- Forks count: 2.524%
- Dependent packages count: 3.317%
Maintainers (1)
- bluejekyll

crates.io: hickory-resolver

hickory-resolver is a safe and secure DNS stub resolver library intended to be a high-level library for DNS record resolution.

Homepage: https://hickory-dns.org/
Documentation: https://docs.rs/hickory-resolver/
Licenses: MIT OR Apache-2.0
Latest release: 0.26.3 (published 17 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-09-26T10:04:28.635Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 23
Dependent Packages: 54
Dependent Repositories: 18
Downloads: 81,201,881 Total
Docker Downloads: 18,669,296
Rankings:
- Dependent packages count: 1.587%
- Forks count: 2.158%
- Stargazers count: 2.227%
- Average: 3.854%
- Docker downloads count: 5.185%
- Downloads: 5.692%
- Dependent repos count: 6.273%
Maintainers (1)
- bluejekyll

crates.io: hickory-proto

hickory-proto is a safe and secure low-level DNS library. This is the foundational DNS protocol library used by the other higher-level Hickory DNS crates.

Homepage: https://hickory-dns.org/
Documentation: https://docs.rs/hickory-proto/
Licenses: MIT OR Apache-2.0
Latest release: 0.26.3 (published 17 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-09-26T10:04:26.428Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 23
Dependent Packages: 20
Dependent Repositories: 21
Downloads: 84,010,605 Total
Docker Downloads: 18,669,296
Rankings:
- Forks count: 2.158%
- Stargazers count: 2.227%
- Dependent packages count: 3.003%
- Average: 4.002%
- Docker downloads count: 5.185%
- Downloads: 5.568%
- Dependent repos count: 5.874%
Maintainers (1)
- bluejekyll
Advisories:

proxy.golang.org: github.com/hickory-dns/hickory-dns

Homepage:
Documentation: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/hickory-dns/hickory-dns#section-documentation
Licenses: other
Latest release: v0.26.3 (published 17 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-09-26T10:04:42.082Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 51
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent packages count: 5.247%
- Average: 5.423%
- Dependent repos count: 5.599%

crates.io: hickory-server

hickory-server is a library for integrating safe and secure DNS servers into an async Tokio application. It supports a variety of protocol features (DNSSEC, TSIG, SIG(0), DoT, DoQ, DoH). Servers can be operated in an authoritative role, or as a forwarding resolver, stub resolver, or a recursive resolver (experimental).

Homepage: https://hickory-dns.org/
Documentation: https://docs.rs/hickory-server/
Licenses: MIT OR Apache-2.0
Latest release: 0.26.3 (published 17 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-09-26T10:04:25.244Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 22
Dependent Packages: 6
Dependent Repositories: 3
Downloads: 4,467,247 Total
Rankings:
- Forks count: 2.158%
- Stargazers count: 2.227%
- Dependent packages count: 6.216%
- Average: 7.862%
- Dependent repos count: 11.477%
- Downloads: 17.231%
Maintainers (1)
- bluejekyll

crates.io: hickory-client

Hickory DNS is a safe and secure DNS library. This is the Client library with DNSSEC support. DNSSEC with NSEC validation for negative records, is complete. The client supports dynamic DNS with SIG0 authenticated requests, implementing easy to use high level functions. Hickory DNS is based on the Tokio and Futures libraries, which means it should be easily integrated into other software that also use those libraries.

Homepage: https://hickory-dns.org/
Documentation: https://docs.rs/hickory-client/
Licenses: MIT OR Apache-2.0
Latest release: 0.25.2 (published over 1 year ago)
Last Synced: 2026-09-26T10:04:27.623Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 14
Dependent Packages: 9
Dependent Repositories: 2
Downloads: 2,181,436 Total
Rankings:
- Forks count: 2.158%
- Stargazers count: 2.227%
- Dependent packages count: 6.216%
- Average: 7.917%
- Dependent repos count: 13.139%
- Downloads: 15.848%
Maintainers (1)
- bluejekyll

crates.io: hickory-recursor

*WARNING* This library is experimental Hickory DNS Recursor is a safe and secure DNS recursive resolver with DNSSEC support. Hickory DNS is based on the Tokio and Futures libraries, which means it should be easily integrated into other software that also use those libraries. This library can be used as in the server and binary for performing recursive lookups.

Homepage: https://hickory-dns.org/
Documentation: https://docs.rs/hickory-recursor/
Licenses: MIT OR Apache-2.0
Latest release: 0.25.2 (published over 1 year ago)
Last Synced: 2026-09-26T10:04:32.864Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 14
Dependent Packages: 2
Dependent Repositories: 1
Downloads: 44,976 Total
Rankings:
- Forks count: 2.158%
- Stargazers count: 2.227%
- Dependent packages count: 12.235%
- Dependent repos count: 16.489%
- Average: 19.57%
- Downloads: 64.741%
Maintainers (1)
- bluejekyll
Advisories:
- Hickory DNS's Record Cache Accepts AUTHORITY-Section NS from Sibling Zone via Parent-Pool Zone-Context Elevation

formulae.brew.sh: hickory-dns

Rust based DNS client, server, and resolver

Homepage: https://github.com/hickory-dns/hickory-dns
Licenses: Apache-2.0 OR MIT
Latest release: 0.26.3 (published 16 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-09-26T10:04:20.498Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 10
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Downloads: 0 Last month
Rankings:
- Forks count: 7.212%
- Stargazers count: 7.952%
- Dependent packages count: 19.616%
- Average: 32.882%
- Dependent repos count: 56.216%
- Downloads: 73.414%

crates.io: nsproxy-hickory-client

Homepage: https://hickory-dns.org/
Documentation: https://docs.rs/nsproxy-hickory-client/
Licenses: MIT OR Apache-2.0
Latest release: 0.25.4 (published 6 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-09-26T10:04:30.220Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Downloads: 25 Total
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 15.78%
- Dependent packages count: 20.844%
- Average: 42.683%
- Downloads: 91.427%
Maintainers (1)
- ple1n

crates.io: nsproxy-hickory-server

Hickory DNS is a safe and secure DNS server with DNSSEC support. The DNSSEC support allows for live signing of all records, but it does not currently support records signed offline. The server supports dynamic DNS with SIG(0) or TSIG authenticated requests. Hickory DNS is based on the Tokio and Futures libraries, which means it should be easy to integrate into other software that also uses those libraries.

Homepage: https://hickory-dns.org/
Documentation: https://docs.rs/nsproxy-hickory-server/
Licenses: MIT OR Apache-2.0
Latest release: 0.25.4 (published 6 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-09-26T10:04:31.489Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Downloads: 24 Total
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 15.78%
- Dependent packages count: 20.844%
- Average: 42.683%
- Downloads: 91.427%
Maintainers (1)
- ple1n

crates.io: nsproxy-hickory-recursor

Homepage: https://hickory-dns.org/
Documentation: https://docs.rs/nsproxy-hickory-recursor/
Licenses: MIT OR Apache-2.0
Latest release: 0.25.4 (published 6 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-09-26T10:04:34.048Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Downloads: 87 Total
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 15.78%
- Dependent packages count: 20.844%
- Average: 42.683%
- Downloads: 91.427%
Maintainers (1)
- ple1n

crates.io: nsproxy-hickory-resolver

Hickory DNS is a safe and secure DNS library. This Resolver library uses the Client library to perform all DNS queries. The Resolver is intended to be a high-level library for any DNS record resolution. See Resolver for supported resolution types. The Client can be used for other queries.

Homepage: https://hickory-dns.org/
Documentation: https://docs.rs/nsproxy-hickory-resolver/
Licenses: MIT OR Apache-2.0
Latest release: 0.25.4 (published 6 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-09-26T10:04:27.818Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Downloads: 165 Total
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 15.78%
- Dependent packages count: 20.844%
- Average: 42.683%
- Downloads: 91.427%
Maintainers (1)
- ple1n

crates.io: nsproxy-hickory-proto

Hickory DNS is a safe and secure DNS library. This is the foundational DNS protocol library for all Hickory DNS projects.

Homepage: https://hickory-dns.org/
Documentation: https://docs.rs/nsproxy-hickory-proto/
Licenses: MIT OR Apache-2.0
Latest release: 0.25.4 (published 6 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-09-26T10:04:31.433Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 2
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Downloads: 310 Total
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 15.811%
- Dependent packages count: 20.885%
- Average: 42.716%
- Downloads: 91.451%
Maintainers (1)
- ple1n

crates.io: hickory-net

hickory-net is a safe and secure low-level DNS library. This is the foundational DNS protocol library used by the other higher-level Hickory DNS crates.

Homepage: https://hickory-dns.org/
Documentation: https://docs.rs/hickory-net/
Licenses: MIT OR Apache-2.0
Latest release: 0.26.3 (published 17 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-09-26T10:04:22.554Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 8
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Downloads: 14,867,117 Total
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 16.675%
- Dependent packages count: 22.033%
- Average: 43.465%
- Downloads: 91.685%
Maintainers (1)
- bluejekyll
Advisories:
- hickory-proto: NSEC3 closest-encloser proof validation enters unbounded loop on cross-zone responses

crates.io: hickory-dns

Hickory DNS is a safe and secure DNS server with a variety of protocol features (DNSSEC, TSIG, SIG(0), DoT, DoQ, DoH). It can be operated as an authoritative DNS server, forwarding resolver, stub resolver, or a recursive resolver (experimental). Zone data can be managed in-memory, with flat files, or with an SQLite database.

Homepage: https://hickory-dns.org/
Documentation: https://docs.rs/hickory-dns/
Licenses: MIT OR Apache-2.0
Latest release: 0.26.3 (published 17 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-09-26T10:04:30.713Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 22
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Downloads: 25,737 Total
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 28.676%
- Dependent packages count: 33.567%
- Average: 52.966%
- Downloads: 96.654%
Maintainers (1)
- bluejekyll

crates.io: hickory-util

Utilities that complement Hickory DNS.

Homepage: https://hickory-dns.org/
Documentation: https://docs.rs/hickory-util/
Licenses: MIT OR Apache-2.0
Latest release: 0.26.3 (published 17 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-09-26T10:04:26.809Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 22
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Downloads: 13,152 Total
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 30.351%
- Dependent packages count: 31.064%
- Average: 53.265%
- Downloads: 98.38%
Maintainers (1)
- bluejekyll

Dependencies

.github/workflows/publish.yml actions

actions-rs/toolchain v1 composite
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codecov/codecov-action v3 composite
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Cargo.lock cargo

221 dependencies

bin/Cargo.toml cargo

native-tls 0.2 development
regex 1.3.4 development
trust-dns-proto 0.22.0 development
trust-dns-resolver 0.22.0 development
webpki-roots 0.22.1 development
clap 4.0
futures 0.3.5
rustls 0.20
time 0.3
tokio 1.21
tracing 0.1.30
tracing-subscriber 0.3
trust-dns-client 0.22.0
trust-dns-proto 0.22.0
trust-dns-server 0.22.0

crates/proto/Cargo.toml cargo

futures-executor 0.3.5 development
openssl 0.10 development
tokio 1.0 development
tracing-subscriber 0.3 development
async-trait 0.1.43
backtrace 0.3.50
bytes 1
cfg-if 1
data-encoding 2.2.0
enum-as-inner 0.5
futures-channel 0.3.5
futures-io 0.3.5
futures-util 0.3.5
h2 0.3.0
http 0.2
idna 0.3.0
ipnet 2.3.0
js-sys 0.3.44
lazy_static 1.2.0
native-tls 0.2
openssl 0.10
quinn 0.9
rand 0.8
ring 0.16
rustls 0.20.0
rustls-pemfile 1.0.0
serde 1.0
smallvec 1.6
socket2 0.4.0
thiserror 1.0.20
tinyvec 1.1.1
tokio 1.0
tokio-native-tls 0.3.0
tokio-openssl 0.6.0
tokio-rustls 0.23.0
tracing 0.1.30
url 2.3.1
wasm-bindgen-crate 0.2.58
webpki 0.22.0
webpki-roots 0.22.1

crates/resolver/Cargo.toml cargo

futures-executor 0.3.5 development
tokio 1.0 development
tracing-subscriber 0.3 development
cfg-if 1.0.0
futures-util 0.3.5
lazy_static 1.2.0
lru-cache 0.1.2
parking_lot 0.12
rand 0.8
resolv-conf 0.7.0
rustls 0.20.0
serde 1.0
smallvec 1.6
thiserror 1.0.20
tokio 1.21
tokio-native-tls 0.3
tokio-openssl 0.6.0
tokio-rustls 0.23.0
tracing 0.1.30
trust-dns-proto 0.22.0
webpki-roots 0.22.1

crates/server/Cargo.toml cargo

tokio 1.21 development
tracing-subscriber 0.3 development
async-trait 0.1.43
bytes 1
cfg-if 1
enum-as-inner 0.5
futures-executor 0.3.5
futures-util 0.3.5
h2 0.3.0
http 0.2
openssl 0.10
rusqlite 0.28.0
rustls 0.20
serde 1.0.114
thiserror 1.0.20
time 0.3
tokio 1.21
tokio-openssl 0.6.0
tokio-rustls 0.23.0
toml 0.5
tracing 0.1.30
trust-dns-client 0.22.0
trust-dns-proto 0.22.0
trust-dns-recursor 0.22.0
trust-dns-resolver 0.22.0

tests/integration-tests/Cargo.toml cargo

futures 0.3.5 development
tokio 1.0 development
async-trait 0.1.43
futures 0.3.5
lazy_static 1.2.0
openssl 0.10
rand 0.8
rusqlite 0.28.0
rustls 0.20
time 0.3
tokio 1.0
tracing 0.1
tracing-subscriber 0.3
trust-dns-client 0.22.0
trust-dns-proto 0.22.0
trust-dns-recursor 0.22.0
trust-dns-resolver 0.22.0
trust-dns-server 0.22.0
webpki-roots 0.22

Cargo.toml cargo

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conformance/compatibility-tests/Cargo.toml cargo

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conformance/Cargo.toml cargo

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conformance/dns-test/src/docker/ede-dot-com/Dockerfile docker

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crates/net/Cargo.toml cargo

conformance/test-server/Cargo.toml cargo

conformance/Cargo.lock cargo

195 dependencies

conformance/dns-test/Cargo.toml cargo

ctrlc 3.4.2 development
pretty_assertions 1.4.0 development
base64 0.22.1
hex 0.4.3
minijinja 2
rcgen 0.14
serde 1.0.196
serde_json 1.0.113
tempfile 3.9.0
url 2.5.0

conformance/e2e-tests/Cargo.toml cargo

conformance/ede-dot-com/Cargo.toml cargo

fuzz/Cargo.lock cargo

122 dependencies

conformance/conformance-tests/Cargo.toml cargo

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