pdnsd is a proxy DNS server with permanent caching (the cache contents are written to hard disk on exit) that is designed to cope with unreachable or down DNS servers (for example in dial-in networking).

Since version 1.1.0, pdnsd supports negative caching.

docker-compose.yml

pdnsd:
  image: vimagick/pdnsd
# volumes:
#   - pdnsd.conf:/etc/pdnsd.conf
  ports:
    - "53:53/tcp"
    - "53:53/udp"
  restart: always

Uncomment volumes to use customized config file.

server

$ cd ~/fig/pdnsd/
$ docker-compose up -d
$ docker exec pdnsd_pdnsd_1 pdnsd-ctl status

client

$ dig @1.2.3.4 www.youtube.com