Faro
Understand and protect your network with self-hosted DNS
Details
- External ID
- 1251880
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Faro
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 19, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- Open Source, Privacy, Developer Tools, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Faro is an open-source, self-hosted DNS server built for visibility as much as blocking. See which devices are requesting domains, understand why requests were allowed or blocked, create per-device protection profiles, manage local DNS, use encrypted upstreams, and run redundant DNS servers from one interface. Faro runs on your own hardware, stores its history locally, and requires no cloud account.
Enrichment
- Theme
- developer infrastructure and monitoring utilities
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- self-hosted dns server for network security
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While the web dashboard and configuration layer are straightforward, building a reliable, performant local DNS server with encrypted upstreams, caching, and low-latency packet handling requires specialized systems and networking programming.
What it would actually take: A production version requires building an extension or wrapper around CoreDNS or writing a custom daemon in Go or Rust using low-level DNS libraries (like miekg/dns). It requires deep networking expertise in UDP/TCP socket handling, DNS-over-HTTPS/TLS protocol implementations, local caching, and robust integration with router/DHCP systems like UniFi.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 106 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #26 of 107 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 311 days after the earliest competitor.
- selfhosted · github · 2026-09-10 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- DNS Notify · ph · 2026-09-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Open database tracking 77K public DNS servers every 10 minutes · hn · 2025-12-18 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Running the second public ODoH relay · hn · 2026-05-14 · 125 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- doctor-dns · github · 2026-09-09 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Nomina · hn · 2026-06-28 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- resolvr-dns-dashboard · github · 2026-09-16 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Dedicated Server Hosting · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
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