BEAR DNS provides a simple and scalable interface to BIND. It is suitable for most small to medium sized organisations. This solution works as primary or secondary nameserver to another instance of BEAR DNS or a third party DNS server.

The challenge of effective DNS management is met through a useful interface to provide the most common requirements of DNS management.

Features

• Full backup and restore.
• DNS server state snapshotting and rollback.
• Mail MX record handling.
• Support for forward, reverse, and alias mapping.
• Support for multiple zones and delegation.
• Separate workflows and roles for updating DNS records and approving changes.
• Support for up to 10 secondary DNS servers.
• Support for cluster and TSIG keys.
• Visualize domain structures as a tree.
• Per zone access control lists for client lookups.

Although the feature set is now mature, this is still a beta release. Release 1.0 is expected some time in 2026.

BEAR NAS is a straightforward NAS for both UNIX NFS shares and Microsoft Windows compatible SMB shares. It provides simple user management with backup and data integrity checking.

BEAR NAS has already proven highly robust in the field and with powerful but simple recovery and backup tools, is production ready.

Features

• SMB and NFS sharing
• User creation and control for both UNIX and Windows shares
• Granular user and group level controls for read and write access
• "Bit Perfect" scheduled monitoring of shares for unexpected changes and data corruption (bit rot).
• Cold backup and full recovery
• Selective automatic recovery of corrupted data