Project Summary
getdns is a modern asynchronous DNS API. It implements DNS entry points from a design developed and vetted by application developers, in an API specification. The open source C implementation of getdns is developed and maintained in collaboration by NLnet Labs, Sinodun and No Mountain Software. This implementation is licensed under the New BSD License.
Stubby is the name given to an application developed in tandem with the API which provides a mode of using getdns which acts as a local DNS Privacy stub resolver daemon (using DNS-over-TLS).
In a Nutshell, getdns / stubby...
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took an estimated 15 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in June, 2013
ending with its most recent commit over 3 years ago
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