https://github.com/nlnetlabs/domain

A DNS library for Rust.
https://github.com/nlnetlabs/domain

dns rust

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A DNS library for Rust.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/nlnetlabs/domain
• Owner: NLnetLabs
• License: bsd-3-clause
• Created: 2018-08-21T16:37:32.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-05-08T14:56:38.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-05-08T15:38:51.892Z (about 1 year ago)
• Topics: dns, rust
• Language: Rust
• Homepage: https://nlnetlabs.nl/projects/domain/
• Size: 7.71 MB
• Stars: 387
• Watchers: 20
• Forks: 67
• Open Issues: 69
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: Changelog.md
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
  • License: LICENSE

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A library for interacting with the Domain Name System. The crate contains

an ever-growing set of building blocks for including DNS functionality in

applications.

Currently, these blocks include:

* basic data structures and functionality for creating and parsing DNS

  data and messages,

* a simple Tokio-based stub resolver,

* experimental support for DNS client and server transports,

* experimental support for reading data from DNS zone files, storing them

  in memory and answering queries,

* experimental support for zone transfer, including support for TSIG,

* experimental and as yet incomplete support for DNSSEC signing and

  validation.

The library is currently under

[heavy development](https://blog.nlnetlabs.nl/domain-foundations-the-first-of-our-five-year-vision/)

and additional building blocks and features are being added.

## Minimal Supported Rust Versions

We are trying to maintain a decent balance between being able to use older

compiler versions and using new features that improve safety and usability

of the crate.  We will support the latest 4 versions of stable Rust, which is

about half a year (24 weeks) past.  This means our MSRV is at least 4 versions

behind the latest stable.

We will bump the MSRV when a dependency requires it (and we cannot support an

older version of the dependency) or when we require new language features.  In

either case, commits bumping the MSRV will document why it occurred.

### Minimum version: 1.79.0

The `rust-version` given in `Cargo.toml` is the oldest version that can

be used to compile the crate with the minimal versions of all dependencies

selected.

You can run `cargo +nightly update -Z minimal-versions` to ask Cargo to

select these minimal versions for all dependencies.

### Current version: 1.79.0

This is the minimum Rust version required to build with latest version of

all dependencies at time of release. `Cargo.lock` contains these versions

for reference.

## Licensing

The domain crate is distributed under the terms of the BSD-3-clause

license. See the [LICENSE] file for details.

[LICENSE]: https://github.com/NLnetLabs/domain/blob/main/LICENSE