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Open Source Networking Connectivity Tools

83 open source tools in this category.

projects 83 combined stars ★ 680K refresh nightly

All Networking Connectivity tools

frp ★ 110K

A fast reverse proxy to help you expose a local server behind a NAT or firewall to the internet.

rank001 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typeNetworking & Connectivity
caddy ★ 79K

Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS

rank002 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typeNetworking & Connectivity
traefik ★ 65K

The Cloud Native Application Proxy

rank003 licenseMIT written inGo typeNetworking & Connectivity
AdGuardHome ★ 38K

Network-wide ads & trackers blocking DNS server

rank004 licenseGPL-3.0 written inTypeScript typeNetworking & Connectivity
nginx ★ 32K

The official NGINX Open Source repository.

rank005 licenseBSD-2-Clause written inC typeNetworking & Connectivity
algo ★ 30K

Set up a personal VPN in the cloud

rank006 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inPython typeNetworking & Connectivity
nginx-proxy ★ 20K

Automated Nginx Reverse Proxy for Docker

rank007 licenseMIT written inPython typeNetworking & Connectivity
goproxy ★ 17K

🔥 Proxy is a high performance HTTP(S) proxies, SOCKS5 proxies,WEBSOCKET, TCP, UDP proxy server implemented by golang. Now, it supports chain-style proxies,nat

rank008 licenseGPL-3.0 written inGo typeNetworking & Connectivity
cloudflared ★ 16K

Cloudflare Tunnel client

rank009 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typeNetworking & Connectivity
openvpn-install ★ 16K

Set up your own OpenVPN server on Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, Arch Linux and more

rank010 licenseMIT written inShell typeNetworking & Connectivity
amnezia-client ★ 16K

Amnezia VPN Client (Desktop+Mobile)

rank011 licenseGPL-3.0 written inC++ typeNetworking & Connectivity
OpenVPN ★ 15K

Zero Trust VPN solutions for secure business networking

rank012 licenseNOASSERTION written inC typeNetworking & Connectivity
coredns ★ 14K

CoreDNS is a DNS server that chains plugins

rank013 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typeNetworking & Connectivity
SoftEtherVPN ★ 14K

Cross-platform multi-protocol VPN software. Pull requests are welcome. The stable version is available at https://github.com/SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN_Stable.

rank014 licenseApache-2.0 written inC typeNetworking & Connectivity
tengine ★ 13K

A high-performance web server and reverse proxy, 100% compatible with nginx.

rank015 licenseBSD-2-Clause written inC typeNetworking & Connectivity
sliver ★ 12K

Adversary Emulation Framework

rank016 licenseGPL-3.0 written inGo typeNetworking & Connectivity
smartdns ★ 11K

A local DNS server to obtain the fastest website IP for the best Internet experience, support DoT, DoH, DoQ. 一个本地DNS服务器,获取最快的网站IP,获得最佳上网体验,支持DoH,DoT,DoQ。

rank017 licenseGPL-3.0 written inC typeNetworking & Connectivity
DnsServer ★ 10K

Technitium DNS Server

rank018 licenseGPL-3.0 written inC# typeNetworking & Connectivity
pivpn ★ 8.1K

The Simplest VPN installer, designed for Raspberry Pi

rank019 licenseMIT written inShell typeNetworking & Connectivity
gost ★ 7.8K

GO Simple Tunnel - a simple tunnel written in golang

rank020 licenseMIT written inGo typeNetworking & Connectivity
MasterDnsVPN ★ 7.3K

Advanced DNS tunneling VPN for censorship bypass, optimized beyond DNSTT and SlipStream with low-overhead ARQ, resolver load balancing, high packet-loss stabili

rank021 licenseMIT written inGo typeNetworking & Connectivity
blocky ★ 7.1K

Fast and lightweight DNS proxy as ad-blocker for local network with many features

rank022 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typeNetworking & Connectivity
bfe ★ 6.3K

A modern layer 7 load balancer from baidu

rank023 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typeNetworking & Connectivity
zoraxy ★ 5.6K

A general purpose HTTP reverse proxy and forwarding tool. Now written in Go!

rank024 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inHTML typeNetworking & Connectivity
Modlishka ★ 5.4K

Modlishka. Reverse Proxy.

rank025 licenseGPL-3.0 written inGo typeNetworking & Connectivity
pomerium ★ 5.1K

Pomerium is an identity and context-aware access proxy.

rank026 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typeNetworking & Connectivity
workbuddy2api-panel ★ 4.7K

把腾讯WorkBuddy账号变成 OpenAI 兼容 API 的多账号网关,同时自动完成任务中心全部任务,附 Web 管理面板(账号池可视化 / 积分任务 / 配置热更新)。基于 Sliverkiss/workbuddy2api 的增强分支

rank027 licenseMIT written inGo typeNetworking & Connectivity
hestiacp ★ 4.6K

Hestia Control Panel | A lightweight and powerful control panel for the modern web.

rank028 licenseGPL-3.0 written inShell typeNetworking & Connectivity
pdns ★ 4.5K

PowerDNS Authoritative, PowerDNS Recursor, dnsdist

rank029 licenseGPL-2.0 written inC++ typeNetworking & Connectivity
mosdns ★ 3.8K

一个 DNS 转发器

rank030 licenseGPL-3.0 written inGo typeNetworking & Connectivity
vulcain ★ 3.6K

🔨 Fast and idiomatic client-driven REST APIs.

rank031 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inGo typeNetworking & Connectivity
proxy.py ★ 3.6K

💫 Ngrok FRP Alternative • ⚡ Fast • 🪶 Lightweight • 0️⃣ Dependency • 🔌 Pluggable • 😈 TLS interception • 🔒 DNS-over-HTTPS • 🔥 Poor Man's VPN • ⏪ Reverse & ⏩

rank032 licenseBSD-3-Clause written inPython typeNetworking & Connectivity
v2ray-configs ★ 3.3K

Free vless-vmess-shadowsocks-trojan-xray-V2ray Configs Updating Every 5 minutes

rank033 licenseGPL-3.0 written inPython typeNetworking & Connectivity
wireguard-install ★ 3.2K

WireGuard VPN server installer for Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, CentOS, Fedora, openSUSE and Raspberry Pi OS. Includes interactive setup and client m

rank034 licenseMIT written inShell typeNetworking & Connectivity
acme-dns ★ 2.9K

Limited DNS server with RESTful HTTP API to handle ACME DNS challenges easily and securely.

rank035 licenseMIT written inGo typeNetworking & Connectivity
dns.toys ★ 2.8K

A DNS server that offers useful utilities and services over the DNS protocol. Weather, world time, unit conversion etc.

rank036 licenseMIT written inGo typeNetworking & Connectivity
angie ★ 2.6K

Angie - drop-in replacement for nginx

rank037 licenseBSD-2-Clause written inC typeNetworking & Connectivity
OpenSurge-for-Mac ★ 2.6K

Surge-style whole-home gateway and control plane for macOS with IPv4/IPv6 support— mihomo TUN, dnsmasq-powered DHCP/DNS, per-device routing, and an agent-friend

rank038 licenseGPL-3.0 written inGo typeNetworking & Connectivity
FreeDomain ★ 2.6K

A Free Domain For Everyone.

rank039 licenseMIT written in— typeNetworking & Connectivity
AIstudioProxyAPI ★ 2.5K

FastAPI + Playwright + Camoufox 中间层代理服务器,兼容OpenAI API且支持参数转发。项目通过浏览器自动化将API请求转发到 Google AI Studio Chat,并同样按照OpenAI标准格式返回的工具。内置调试WebUI面板。

rank040 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inPython typeNetworking & Connectivity
WR.DO ★ 2.3K

Free DNS management and URL shortening platform

rank041 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typeNetworking & Connectivity
piko ★ 2.2K

An open-source alternative to Ngrok, designed to serve production traffic and be simple to host (particularly on Kubernetes)

rank042 licenseMIT written inGo typeNetworking & Connectivity
trickster ★ 2.1K

Open Source HTTP Reverse Proxy Cache and Time Series DB Query Accelerator

rank043 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typeNetworking & Connectivity
frpmgr ★ 2.1K

A user-friendly desktop GUI client for FRP on Windows.

rank044 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typeNetworking & Connectivity
titanium-web-proxy ★ 2.0K

A cross-platform high performing HTTP(S) proxy server in C#.

rank045 licenseMIT written inC# typeNetworking & Connectivity
numa ★ 2.0K

Portable DNS resolver in Rust — .numa local domains, ad blocking, developer overrides

rank046 licenseMIT written inRust typeNetworking & Connectivity
tsdproxy ★ 1.7K

Automatic Tailscale reverse proxy for Docker containers. Zero sidecars. Label-based config. Automatic HTTPS.

rank047 licenseMIT written inGo typeNetworking & Connectivity
FastTunnel ★ 1.7K

expose a local server to the internet. 高性能跨平台的内网穿透解决方案 远程内网计算机 域名访问内网站点 反向代理内网服务 端口转发 http代理

rank048 licenseApache-2.0 written inC# typeNetworking & Connectivity
wiredoor ★ 1.6K

Self hosted ingress-as-a-service platform that allows you to expose applications and services running in private or local networks to the internet

rank049 licenseApache-2.0 written inTypeScript typeNetworking & Connectivity
landscape ★ 1.6K

The goal is to make it easier to configure your favorite Linux distribution as a router. Built with Rust and eBPF.

rank050 licenseGPL-3.0 written inRust typeNetworking & Connectivity
WordOps ★ 1.6K

Install and manage a high performance WordPress stack with a few keystrokes

rank051 licenseMIT written inPython typeNetworking & Connectivity
amneziawg-installer ★ 1.5K

Install your own AmneziaWG 3.1 VPN server on a fresh Ubuntu or Debian VPS with one command. Made for networks that block WireGuard. No Docker, QR-code import, 2

rank052 licenseMIT written inShell typeNetworking & Connectivity
pingap ★ 1.4K

A reverse proxy like nginx, built on pingora, simple and efficient.

rank053 licenseApache-2.0 written inRust typeNetworking & Connectivity
docktail ★ 1.4K

Expose Docker containers as Tailscale Services using label-based configuration.

rank054 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inGo typeNetworking & Connectivity
node ★ 1.4K

Mysterium Network Node - official implementation of distributed VPN network (dVPN) protocol

rank055 licenseGPL-3.0 written inGo typeNetworking & Connectivity
sshpiper ★ 1.3K

The missing reverse proxy for ssh scp

rank056 licenseMIT written inGo typeNetworking & Connectivity
reproxy ★ 1.3K

Simple edge server / reverse proxy

rank057 licenseMIT written inGo typeNetworking & Connectivity
Muximux ★ 1.2K

A self-hosted homelab dashboard with an optional built-in reverse proxy that makes stubborn apps work in iframes

rank058 licenseGPL-2.0 written inGo typeNetworking & Connectivity
proxelar ★ 1.1K

Scriptable local traffic workbench for inspecting, intercepting, replaying, and rewriting HTTP/HTTPS and WebSocket traffic.

rank059 licenseMIT written inRust typeNetworking & Connectivity
nps ★ 1.1K

NPS Enhanced — Lightweight intranet tunneling and reverse proxy with Web UI | NPS 内网穿透 反向代理 增强版 全修 新版 二开

rank060 licenseGPL-3.0 written inGo typeNetworking & Connectivity
sdns ★ 1.1K

A high-performance, recursive DNS resolver server with DNSSEC support, focused on preserving privacy.

rank061 licenseMIT written inGo typeNetworking & Connectivity
gate ★ 1.1K

Build efficient Bedrock & Java Minecraft networks with multi-version support. Powers global Connect network at production scale. Runs with 10MB.

rank062 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typeNetworking & Connectivity
goshs ★ 1.0K

Feature-rich single-binary file server for red teamers and developers. HTTP/S · WebDAV · FTP/SFTP · SMB · LDAP/S · NTLM hash capture · DNS/SMTP callbacks · TL

rank063 licenseMIT written inGo typeNetworking & Connectivity
gravity ★ 932

Fully-replicated DNS and DHCP Server with ad-blocking powered by etcd

rank064 licenseGPL-3.0 written inGo typeNetworking & Connectivity
netgoat ★ 907

A Cloudflare alternative for local and cloud use, can be used ontop of cloudflare for cloudflares paid features, but for free!

rank065 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inGo typeNetworking & Connectivity
DnsClient.NET ★ 881

DnsClient.NET is a simple yet very powerful and high performant open source library for the .NET Framework to do DNS lookups

rank066 licenseApache-2.0 written inC# typeNetworking & Connectivity
dns-proxy-server ★ 852

Solve your DNS hosts from your docker containers, then from your local configuration, then from internet

rank067 licenseApache-2.0 written inJava typeNetworking & Connectivity
xfrpc ★ 844

xfrpc 是一个轻量级的 FRP 客户端,完美兼容 frps,采用 C 语言实现,专为 OpenWRT 和物联网等资源受限系统优化设计。它针对 ROM 和 RAM 空间有限的设备,提供高效的内网穿透解决方案。xfrpc 集成了xDPI(深度包检测)功能,增强了安全性,有效防止内网穿透中因恶意嗅探导致的安全威胁,确保数

rank068 licenseGPL-3.0 written inC typeNetworking & Connectivity
aralez ★ 805

Aralez (Արալեզ), Reverse proxy built on top of Cloudflare's Pingora

rank069 licenseApache-2.0 written inRust typeNetworking & Connectivity
bind9 ★ 789

Archived mirror of https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9, please submit issues and PR/MRs in the GitLab.

rank070 licenseMPL-2.0 written inC typeNetworking & Connectivity
rust-rpxy ★ 786

A simple and ultrafast http reverse proxy serving multiple domain names and terminating TLS for http/1.1, 2 and 3, written in Rust

rank071 licenseMIT written inRust typeNetworking & Connectivity
awl ★ 724

Securely connect your devices into a private network. Mesh VPN, socks5 proxy server/client

rank072 licenseMPL-2.0 written inGo typeNetworking & Connectivity
tunnl.gg ★ 682

A minimal SSH tunneling service. Expose your local apps to the internet with a single command.

rank073 licenseMIT written inGo typeNetworking & Connectivity
go-emby2openlist ★ 674

Go 语言编写的 Emby + OpenList (Alist) 网盘直链反向代理服务,深度适配阿里云盘转码播放,支持 OpenList 本地目录树生成,配置简单,DockerCompose 一键部署

rank074 licenseGPL-3.0 written inGo typeNetworking & Connectivity
Kathara ★ 654

A lightweight container-based network emulation system.

rank075 licenseGPL-3.0 written inPython typeNetworking & Connectivity
lightway-core ★ 626

Lightway Core is a modern VPN protocol by ExpressVPN, to deliver a VPN experience that’s faster, more secure, and more reliable.

rank076 licenseGPL-2.0 written inC typeNetworking & Connectivity
oxidns ★ 617

A high-performance, programmable DNS engine in Rust with flexible pipeline-based routing.

rank077 licenseGPL-3.0 written inRust typeNetworking & Connectivity
dnsleaktest ★ 591

An open source script tests VPN connection for DNS Leak.

rank078 licenseMIT written inBatchfile typeNetworking & Connectivity
node-dns ★ 591

:globe_with_meridians: DNS Server and Client Implementation in Pure JavaScript with no dependencies.

rank079 licenseMIT written inJavaScript typeNetworking & Connectivity
DNS-collector ★ 573

Grab your DNS logs, detect anomalies, and finally understand what's happening on your network. The missing piece between DNS servers and your data stack.

rank080 licenseMIT written inGo typeNetworking & Connectivity
gdnsd ★ 560

Authoritative DNS Server

rank081 licenseGPL-3.0 written inC typeNetworking & Connectivity
port-buddy ★ 536

Expose local ports to the internet in seconds

rank082 licenseApache-2.0 written inJava typeNetworking & Connectivity
webinoly ★ 519

Production NGINX made simple: secure defaults, terminal‑first, performance‑obsessed. The production standard for modern PHP and Web developers. Elevating the ec

rank083 licenseGPL-3.0 written inShell typeNetworking & Connectivity

Frequently asked questions

How many open source Networking Connectivity tools are there?

This registry tracks 83 open source Networking Connectivity projects, with 680,118 combined GitHub stars. The list is ranked by stars and refreshed nightly.

What is the most popular open source Networking Connectivity project?

frp leads this category with 110,395 GitHub stars, followed by caddy.

Are these Networking Connectivity tools free?

Yes — every project listed here is open source. Some also offer paid hosted versions alongside the free self-hosted option; the licence for each project is shown on its card.