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A contemporary DNS library focused on performance using LuaJIT FFI.

$ luarocks install ljdns

The goal of this project is a fast DNS library for testing new RFCs and building DNS services.
It supports all widely used DNS records (DNSSEC included) with a lean and mean API for DNS primitives, messages, asynchronous I/O (including coroutines, TCP Fast Open and SO_REUSEPORT), and DNS over TLS.

Versions

2.4-09 years ago237 downloads
0.5-09 years ago35 downloads
0.4-010 years ago103 downloads
0.3-110 years ago46 downloads
0.2-210 years ago(revision: 4)226 downloads
0.2-110 years ago(revision: 2)49 downloads

Dependencies

ljsyscall >= 0.12
lua >= 5.1
lua-cjson >= 2.1.0

Dependency for

warp

Manifests