Nomina
Single Binary DNS and Nameserver with WebUI for Homelabs
Details
- External ID
- 48706884
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
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- Website domain
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- Launched
- June 28, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.31420765027322406
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hey everyone,I was always tired of setting up PowerDNS, Bind and PiHole and I am trying to do more projects in Rust, so here is Nomina.It has:* Split Horizon DNS (return a different IP/record if remote IP is in a certain network etc)* DynDNS Support* Blocklist Integration* DHCP4+6 Server* AXFR/IXFR support* Rewriting of recordsIt can replace most of the common Home Lab setups incl. PiHole AdBlocking etc.https://github.com/DatanoiseTV/Nomina
Enrichment
- Theme
- proxy, dns, and networking tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- dns and nameserver for homelabs
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Building a custom DNS, DHCPv4/v6, and nameserver with low-level protocol compliance (AXFR/IXFR, DynDNS) requires deep network systems engineering and systems programming expertise.
What it would actually take: The system is typically built in Rust using low-level socket handling, raw packet parsing (RFC 1035, RFC 2136, RFC 8415 for DHCPv6), and custom asynchronous I/O with Tokio. The primary challenges are implementing rock-solid protocol state machines, edge-case networking behaviors, and low-latency concurrent resolution without memory leaks or race conditions. This requires specialized network systems engineering and expertise in core internet protocols.
Discussion
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Competitors
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Launched 223 days after the earliest competitor.
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