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Faro

Understand and protect your network with self-hosted DNS

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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.

PH · launched Sep 19, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views

Niche: networking and tunneling utilities · 190 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▼ -17% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Security
  • Observability & eval
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • Open Source
  • Privacy
  • Developer Tools
  • GitHub

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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 : 266 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #73 of 267 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 311 days after the earliest competitor.

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