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title: Removing EDNS Workarounds | PowerDNS Blog
description: PowerDNS, ISC, CZ.NIC and NLnetlabs, starting Feb 1 2019, will remove workarounds for severely broken EDNS setups from our software.
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# [Removing EDNS Workarounds | PowerDNS Blog](https://blog.powerdns.com/2018/03/22/removing-edns-workarounds)

 Written by [Peter van Dijk](https://blog.powerdns.com/author/habbie) | Mar 22, 2018 4:00:00 AM

In a coordinated effort between PowerDNS, ISC, CZ.NIC and NLnetlabs, starting Feb 1 2019, workarounds for severely broken EDNS setups will be removed from our collective body of software.

For the PowerDNS Recursor, this will happen in the 4.2.0 release.

Please read [the full article by CZ.NIC](https://en.blog.nic.cz/2018/03/14/together-for-better-stability-speed-and-further-extensibility-of-the-dns-ecosystem/), read [these slides from ISC](https://indico.dns-oarc.net/event/28/session/13/contribution/72/material/slides/0.pdf), or [watch this OARC presentation](https://youtu.be/9YYH8JFH_bY?t=5198).

 

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