A powerful "hosts" replacement.

• Use regular expression to match the domain name.
• Both IPv4 and IPv6 are supported.
• Support non-standard listening port (ports other than 53).
• Return a immediate address (A/AAAA record) or redirect query to a custom name server on pattern matched.
• Local cache with custom TTL settings.
• Support source IP whitelist to filter unauthorized clients.
• Support compression pointer mutation when querying another name server. This may avoid MITM attack in some network environments.

You can always get the latest release here: https://github.com/stackia/DNSAgent/releases/latest

• .NET Framework 4.5+ (not compatible with Windows XP)

There is a Dnsmasq to DNSAgent rules converter available to quickly make your Dnsmasq rules working with this program:

https://stackia.github.io/masq2agent/

Edit options.cfg to change options.

Edit rules.cfg to customize your rules.

Both options.cfg and rules.cfg are standord JSON files, your can use any of your favorite editors to open them.

Launch DNSAgent.exe and change your system DNS to 127.0.0.1. Voilà!

You can choose to install DNSAgent as a Windows service by running Install as Service.bat. And Uninstall Service.bat to remove this service.

A sample configuration:

{
    "HideOnStart": false,
    "ListenOn": "127.0.0.1:53",
    "DefaultNameServer": "8.8.8.8:53",
    "QueryTimeout": 4000,
    "CompressionMutation": false,
    "CacheResponse": true,
    "CacheAge": 0,
    "NetworkWhitelist": null
}

Set CacheResponse to false will disable local cache. Set CacheAge to 0 will use the DNS response's record TTL as cache TTL.

If you want to filter source IP, you can set NetworkWhitelist with the following format (CIDR notation is used below):

    "NetworkWhitelist": [
        "127.0.0.1/32",
        "192.168.199.0/24"
    ]

WARNING: Set NetworkWhitelist to [] will deny all requests. If you want to disable source IP filting, set NetworkWhitelist to null.

[
    {
        "Pattern": "^(.*\\.googlevideo\\.com)|((.*\\.)?(youtube|ytimg)\\.com)$",
        "Address": "203.66.168.119"
    },
    {
        "Pattern": "^.*\\.cn$",
        "NameServer": "114.114.114.114:53",
        "QueryTimeout": 1000,
        "CompressionMutation": false
    }
]

When a domain name matchs mutiple rules, the last one is used.

IPv6 address will only be returned when the client querys for AAAA records.

ListenOn / DefaultNameServer / NameServer field can be of following formats:

127.0.0.1 // IPv4 address with a default port 53
127.0.0.1:9029 // IPv4 address with a custom port 9029
2001:4860:4860::8888 // IPv6 address with a default port 53
[2001:4860:4860::8888]:9029 // IPv6 address with a custom port 9029

You can press Ctrl + R to reload all configurations and clear cache without restart this program.

The project is released under MIT License.

The project uses a modified version of ARSoft.Tools.Net, which is released under Apache License 2.0. The modification enables compression pointer on DNS questions, which shouldn't be done normally according to RFC, but it can be used to bypass DNS poisoning under certain environments.

ARSoft.Tools.Net is an excellent DNS library purely written in C#. Thanks to their great work for .NET community!