PowerDNS
E831090
PowerDNS is an open-source, high-performance authoritative and recursive DNS server widely used for scalable and programmable domain name services.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| PowerDNS canonical | 2 |
| PowerDNS Authoritative Server | 1 |
| PowerDNS Recursor | 1 |
| PowerDNS.COM BV | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9932241 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: PowerDNS Context triple: [TSIG, implementedBy, PowerDNS]
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A.
OpenDNS
OpenDNS is a cloud-delivered DNS and security service provider known for web filtering, phishing protection, and enterprise network security solutions.
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B.
dnsmasq
dnsmasq is a lightweight, easy-to-configure network service daemon that provides DNS forwarding, DHCP, and TFTP services, commonly used in embedded systems and home routers.
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C.
aardvark-dns
aardvark-dns is a lightweight DNS server component used by container tools like Podman to provide name resolution for containers and their networks.
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D.
Onionoo
Onionoo is a web-based protocol and service by The Tor Project that provides structured, real-time data about Tor network relays and bridges.
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E.
CoreDNS
CoreDNS is a flexible, plugin-based DNS server designed for cloud-native environments and commonly used as the default DNS service in Kubernetes clusters.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: PowerDNS Target entity description: PowerDNS is an open-source, high-performance authoritative and recursive DNS server widely used for scalable and programmable domain name services.
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A.
OpenDNS
OpenDNS is a cloud-delivered DNS and security service provider known for web filtering, phishing protection, and enterprise network security solutions.
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B.
dnsmasq
dnsmasq is a lightweight, easy-to-configure network service daemon that provides DNS forwarding, DHCP, and TFTP services, commonly used in embedded systems and home routers.
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C.
aardvark-dns
aardvark-dns is a lightweight DNS server component used by container tools like Podman to provide name resolution for containers and their networks.
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D.
Onionoo
Onionoo is a web-based protocol and service by The Tor Project that provides structured, real-time data about Tor network relays and bridges.
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E.
CoreDNS
CoreDNS is a flexible, plugin-based DNS server designed for cloud-native environments and commonly used as the default DNS service in Kubernetes clusters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
DNS server software
ⓘ
authoritative name server ⓘ open-source software ⓘ recursive resolver ⓘ |
| deploymentModel |
cloud-based
ⓘ
on-premises ⓘ |
| developedBy |
Open-Xchange group
ⓘ
PowerDNS.COM BV ⓘ
linked to:
PowerDNS
|
| hasComponent |
REST API
ⓘ
web-based administration tools (via third-party GUIs) ⓘ |
| is |
high-performance DNS server
ⓘ
programmable DNS platform ⓘ scalable DNS solution ⓘ |
| license | GPL-2.0-or-later ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
BSD
ⓘ
Linux ⓘ Unix-like systems ⓘ macOS ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage |
C
ⓘ
C++ ⓘ |
| softwareType |
authoritative DNS server
ⓘ
recursive DNS server ⓘ |
| supportsBackend |
BIND zone files
ⓘ
LDAP ⓘ MySQL ⓘ Oracle ⓘ Pipe backend ⓘ PostgreSQL ⓘ Remote backend ⓘ SQLite ⓘ |
| supportsComponent |
PowerDNS Authoritative Server
ⓘ
linked to:
PowerDNS
PowerDNS Recursor ⓘ
linked to:
PowerDNS
dnsdist ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
API-based zone management
ⓘ
DNS over HTTPS via dnsdist ⓘ DNS over TLS via dnsdist ⓘ DNSSEC ⓘ EDNS(0) ⓘ Lua scripting ⓘ
linked to:
Lua
RPZ (Response Policy Zones) ⓘ database-backed zones ⓘ dynamic updates ⓘ zone transfer (AXFR/IXFR) ⓘ |
| supportsIntegration |
Prometheus metrics via exporters
ⓘ
configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef) ⓘ systemd ⓘ |
| supportsProtocol |
IPv4
ⓘ
IPv6 ⓘ |
| supportsStandard |
DNS
ⓘ
DNSSEC ⓘ EDNS ⓘ
linked to:
EDNS(0)
|
| useCase |
ISP DNS infrastructure
ⓘ
authoritative DNS hosting ⓘ enterprise DNS infrastructure ⓘ programmable DNS for automation ⓘ recursive DNS resolution ⓘ |
| website | https://www.powerdns.com/ ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: PowerDNS Description of subject: PowerDNS is an open-source, high-performance authoritative and recursive DNS server widely used for scalable and programmable domain name services.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: PowerDNS
linked to: PowerDNS
linked to: PowerDNS