[tenta]

Knot DNS is authoritative only. Our main focus has been recursive support and full security support. We haven't used knot dns, but it has an excellent reputation. At the moment, knot dns is more suitable for authoritative hosting (our authoritative features are still very minimal). Although in certain circumstances, like dns leak testing, we have built in support for that.

[scurvy]

I'll put on my djb hat here, I'd avoid combining authoritative and recursive resolving servers in the same process. That is, unless you want to end up like bind.

[tenta]

You can certainly make two configs, an authoritative only and a recursive only and just run two copies. However, while we cannot strictly control how goroutines are allocated, each module (recursor, resolver, nsnitch) run as their own little kingdom and primarily communicate with shared plumbing (geoip, for instance) through channels.

[cat199]

Sorry, unfortunately you have moved the djb hat from the djb hat rack and so can no longer refer to it as a djb hat.

[pouetpouet]

So Knot is authoritative, like nsd. And this Golang server is more like Unbound.