# Install ctrld with Homebrew

Highly configurable, multi-protocol DNS forwarding proxy. Version 1.5.4 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-27.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:ctrld
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install ctrld
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:ctrld
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.5.4
- **Source summary:** Highly configurable, multi-protocol DNS forwarding proxy
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/Control-D-Inc/ctrld>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/Control-D-Inc/ctrld>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-27T22:04:06+02:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- ctrld (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.5.4
## Project history and usage

ctrld is Control D's open-source command-line daemon for running a local DNS proxy and forwarding service on routers, servers, and client machines.

### Project history

Control D documents ctrld as an open-source daemon developed to make onboarding possible on many device types. The public GitHub repository describes it as a highly configurable, multi-protocol DNS forwarding proxy and was created in late 2022.

### Adoption history

The official documentation frames adoption around network operators, users who need secure DNS on devices without native support, split-horizon DNS deployments, roaming clients, and router-style installations.

### How it is used

Typical use is to install ctrld as a local service, point a device or LAN at it for DNS, and configure Control D resolver behavior through generated or local TOML configuration.

### Why package nerds care

For package managers, ctrld is a small but operationally important DNS daemon: it ships a single CLI/service binary, has persistent configuration paths, and bridges a hosted DNS control plane with local Unix-like service management.

### Timeline

- 2022: Public Control-D-Inc/ctrld repository created.
- 2020s: Control D documents ctrld as the command-line daemon for router, LAN, and roaming-client DNS deployments.

### Related projects

- Control D, secure DNS protocols, DNS-over-HTTPS, DNS-over-TLS, local DNS forwarders.

### Sources

- <https://docs.controld.com/docs/ctrld>
- <https://github.com/Control-D-Inc/ctrld>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/Control-D-Inc/ctrld>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: /etc/controld/ctrld.toml, ./ctrld.toml, ./config.toml

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/ctrld.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/ctrld.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph