Posadis is a powerful DNS server, supporting both authoritative DNS and caching functionality, which is available for many different operating systems, including Mac OS X, Windows, and many Unix variants such as Linux and FreeBSD.
For documentation on the 0.60.* series, see Documentation. For documentation on the new 0.70.* series, see the index. For downloads, see the Download page.
| Feature | Benefit |
|---|---|
| Caching and forwarding | Speed up the process of looking up domain names on your local network or PC |
| Primary DNS | Serve lookup information for internet or local network domain names |
| Secondary DNS | Run multiple servers without the need to edit the zone data at multiple places |
| Monitoring of zone files | Changes in your zone configuration files are directly handled by the server |
| DNS Notify support | Changes in the primary are directly reported to secondary DNS servers |
| DNS Update support (new in 0.70) | Easily edit your zones from different programs or different PC’s |
| Command-line tools | Perform simple operations such as testing and updating zone data |
Posadis is useful in the following situations (see the DNS overview for more information):