hickory-proto is used at run time in 145 crates (of which 64 optionally). It is a direct run-time dependency in 19 crates. It's used only as a dev dependency in 8 crates.

Depender (with downloads and own rev deps) hickory-proto version
258K 53 hickory-resolver ^0.24.0
223K 2 libp2p-mdns ^0.24.0
11K 9 hickory-client ^0.24.0
11K 6 hickory-server ^0.24.0
3.3K 12 iroh-net ^0.24.0
430 iroh-dns-server ^0.24.0
280 hickory-dns ^0.24.0
220 2 hickory-recursor ^0.24.0
210 aardvark-dns ^0.24.0
140 nu_plugin_dns ^0.24.1
900 6 agnostic optional ^0.24
130 hickory-util ^0.24.0
crab-hole ^0.24
1 idns ^0.24.0
hitdns ^0.24.0
swarm-discovery ^0.24.0
dns_name ^0.24.0
dns-firewall ^0.24.0
350 1 arti optional ^0.24.0