Installation¶

technitium-dns-mcp is a standard Python package and a prebuilt container image. Pick the path that matches how you want to run it.

Requirements¶

Python 3.11 – 3.14.
A reachable Technitium DNS Server web service — see Backing Platform to deploy one locally.

From PyPI (recommended)¶

pip install technitium-dns-mcp

Optional extras¶

The base install is intentionally minimal. Install the extra for what you need:

Extra	Install	Pulls in
`mcp`	`pip install "technitium-dns-mcp[mcp]"`	FastMCP MCP-server runtime (`agent-utilities[mcp]`)
`agent`	`pip install "technitium-dns-mcp[agent]"`	Pydantic-AI agent + Logfire tracing
`all`	`pip install "technitium-dns-mcp[all]"`	Everything above
`test`	`pip install "technitium-dns-mcp[test]"`	`pytest`, `pytest-asyncio`, `pytest-cov`, `pytest-xdist`

# Typical: run the MCP server and the agent
pip install "technitium-dns-mcp[all]"

From source¶

git clone https://github.com/Knuckles-Team/technitium-dns-mcp.git
cd technitium-dns-mcp
pip install -e ".[all]"          # editable install with every extra

With uv:

uv pip install -e ".[all]"
uv run technitium-dns-mcp

Prebuilt Docker image¶

A multi-stage, slim image is published on every release (entrypoint technitium-dns-mcp):

docker pull knucklessg1/technitium-dns-mcp:latest

docker run --rm -i \
  -e TECHNITIUM_DNS_URL=http://your-technitium:5380 \
  -e TECHNITIUM_DNS_TOKEN=your-api-token \
  knucklessg1/technitium-dns-mcp:latest        # stdio transport (default)

For an HTTP server with a published port, see Deployment.

Verify the install¶

technitium-dns-mcp --help
python -c "import technitium_dns_mcp; print(technitium_dns_mcp.__version__)"

Next steps¶

Deployment — run it as a long-lived MCP server behind Caddy + DNS.
Usage — call the tools, the API, and the agent.
Configuration — every environment variable.