One of the less flashy things Uplivra does: a collector can be your network's DNS server. Not a forwarder to your ISP — an actual authoritative server for your own zones, running on the box that's already watching the network.
What it does, plainly:
* Serves your own zones, including names built from DHCP leases and IP reservations. Printer gets an address from DHCP, it gets a name in DNS. No spreadsheet.
* Forwards your Active Directory domain to your domain controllers, so AD keeps working exactly as it does today.
* Everything else goes out over encrypted DNS through Quad9, which also blocks known malware and phishing domains.
* Manageable from the command line: add, set, edit, find, remove records, batch changes (all or nothing), CSV import/export, zone comparisons, dig-style lookups — all with -json and exit codes for scripts.
It's free in Core, no paid module. I built it because small networks tend to either run DNS on a dusty Windows box nobody wants to touch, or depend on consumer-router DNS that fails in creative ways at 2am.
If you're running your own DNS, what do you use — and what breaks most often?
Source: r/Uplivra · by /u/moojeee