razvandimescu/numa
Portable DNS resolver in Rust: .numa local domains, ad blocking, developer overrides, DoT/DoH/ODoH, DNSSEC
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 11 days ago, with 16 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #76 in the weekly ranking the week of Apr 26, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a portable DNS resolver with ad blocking, local .numa domain naming, developer overrides, and encrypted DNS queries built in Rust.
- Delivers a single binary solution combining recursive DNSSEC validation, encrypted DNS-over-TLS/HTTPS, local service discovery, and ad blocking without external dependencies.
- Use for developers needing easy local service naming and HTTPS with automatic TLS and WebSocket proxying on their laptops or workstations.
- Use for privacy-conscious users wanting encrypted DNS queries with ODoH support and DNSSEC validation to prevent tracking and spoofing.
- Use for network administrators deploying lightweight DNS servers with LAN discovery, conditional forwarding, and ad blocking across multiple machines.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
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From the README
DNS you own. Everywhere you go. — numa.rs
A portable DNS resolver in a single binary. Block ads on any network, name your local services (
frontend.numa), override any hostname with auto-revert, and seal every outbound query with ODoH (RFC 9230) so no single party sees both who you are and what you asked — all from your laptop, no cloud account or Raspberry Pi required.Built from scratch in Rust. Zero DNS libraries. Caching, ad blocking, and local service domains out of the box. Optional recursive resolution from root nameservers with full DNSSEC chain-of-trust validation, plus a DNS-over-TLS listener for encrypted client connections (iOS Private DNS, systemd-resolved, etc.). Run
numa relayand the same binary becomes a public ODoH endpoint too — the curated DNSCrypt list currently has one surviving relay, so every Numa deploy materially expands the ecosystem. One ~8MB binary, everything embedded.Open the dashboard: http://numa.numa (or
http://localhost:5380)On macOS and Linux, numa runs as a system service (launchd/systemd). On Windows, numa auto-starts on login via registry.
Name your dev services instead of remembering port numbers:
Now
https://frontend.numaworks in your browser — green lock, valid cert, WebSocket passthrough for HMR. No mkcert, no nginx, no/etc/hosts.Add path-based routing (
app.numa/api → :5001), share services across machines via LAN discovery, or configure everything innuma.toml.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
139+39
Open issues
27+5
Compared with peers in Developer Tools
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 1, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stablyai/orca | 116.8K | +6.6K | 40 | today |
| affaan-m/ECC | 297.9K | +5.2K | 63 | 35 days ago |
| DietrichGebert/ponytail | 185.3K | +5.1K | 60 | 7 days ago |
| herdrdev/herdr | 48.3K | +1.7K | 59 | 22 days ago |
| The-PR-Agent/pr-agent | 15.1K | +1.5K | 64 | 11 days ago |
| razvandimescu/numa | 2.0K | — | 40 | 11 days ago |
| Category median | 116.8K | +5.1K | 60 | — |
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