The simple yet powerful DNS server for Windows . What makes Simple DNS Plus “simple” is its user interface and automation features. All options and settings are available directly from the intuitive Windows user interface. It provides wizards for common tasks such as setting up new zones, importing data, making bulk updates, etc. You never need to mess with cryptic configuration files or registry settings. 

Novice users can have their DNS server up and running correctly and securely in no time. But make no mistake – Simple DNS Plus is a very capable and full featured DNS server, and it has plenty of options for expert users to tweak it just the way they want.

Features
Authoritative and Recursive (resolver and cache) DNS server
All the DNS server features and functionality you need to host DNS for domain names, assign domain name to computers and devices for easy access, create and delegate sub-domains, resolve other domain names on the Internet, speed up Internet access with centralized DNS caching, etc.

High performance DNS server engine and user interface
Great for hosting and managing anywhere from a few domains to +100,000 domains.
The user interface is optimized to handle really large domain name portfolios.

Highly configurable
Simple DNS Plus has options to configure all aspects of the DNS services, including many unique but important options not found in competing products such as the ability to limit recursion by IP address. Options are well organized and easy to manage in a central Options dialog available directly from first toolbar button in the main program window.
Of course the software comes preconfigured with settings that are appropriate for most users.

Remote Management / Windows Server Core
The Simple DNS Plus user interface can be run on a desktop computer connecting to a remote Simple DNS Plus server, making it easy and fast to manage the server without Remote Desktop, VNC, or similar.
You can even remote manage a Simple DNS Plus service running on Windows Server Core (no GUI on server)

Direct support for dynamic IP clients
Simple DNS Plus supports TSIG authenticated dynamic DNS updates.
This update method is more efficient than the HTTP based and other proprietary update methods typically used because it happens directly via the DNS protocol.
Several dynamic IP updater applications can be used with this.
Setup tutorials are provided for DynSite and DirectUpdate.
Simple DNS Plus can also function as a dynamic DNS service for more generic HTTP based update clients either by using the DynDNS Service plug-in or by using a web-server front-end. ASP.NET and classic ASP sample code for this is available here.

Full support for IDNs (internationalized domain names)
In Simple DNS Plus you can enter domain names with native characters directly (no punycode conversion needed), and have an option to display native character or punycoded domain names anywhere in the user interface, and quickly switch between these modes.

IPv6
Simple DNS Plus has full support for IPv6.

Easy to integrate with other applications
You can create DNS records or entire DNS zones from other applications or web-sites and prompt Simple DNS Plus to dynamically load and use these through our REST / JSON based HTTP API.
In fact you can control pretty much everyhing in the software through the HTTP API.
We provide a Swagger / OpenAPI specification file for the HTTP API to use with a long list of automation tools – for example to generate client code in practically any programming / scripting language.
You can explore, play with and test the HTTP API through Swagger UI. Have a peek athttps://simpledns.com/swagger-ui
The HTTP API also supports CORS making it possible to access the HTTP API from javascript on a web-page, SSL for secure connections, and detailed debugging log files.
Simple DNS Plus also allows you to connect with other applications and data from different sources through various plug-ins and can be extended through an open plug-in architecture.

100% .NET managed code
This provides great performance – also on 64 bit computers where Simple DNS Plus runs in native 64 bit mode.
And it is very secure because common security issues such as buffer overruns simply cannot happen.

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