Knot
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
1warn against
Nov 20, 2025first mention
Oct 30, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Being able to host my git repos as a headless, data-only server is about as painless as self-hosting can get.”
Self-hosts a Knot serveron “Why I'm leaving GitHub for Forgejo”
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“The fact you can always switch to a self-hosted knot is nice”
“With Knot, you can just add ~8 lines to your config”
Caveats and dissent
“it only really reliably worked once I enabled lots of IPv4 NAT'ing”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- The federated code forge 1 mention
- Gleam Is Now on Tangled 1 mention
- Why I'm leaving GitHub for Forgejo 1 mention
- Tangled – We need a federation of forges 1 mention
- Ghostty is leaving GitHub 1 mention
- You Can Run a DNS Server 1 mention
Also written as Knot DNS, knot. Data: knot.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 7
“already exists :)”
“it only really reliably worked once I enabled lots of IPv4 NAT'ing”
“Being able to host my git repos as a headless, data-only server is about as painless as self-hosting can get.”
“sidecar services like knot can use service authentication”
“The fact you can always switch to a self-hosted knot is nice”
“With Knot, you can just add ~8 lines to your config”
“a fastmail blog about why they switched to knot (from PowerDNS)”