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First beta release of dnsdist 1.7.0

First beta release of dnsdist 1.7.0

Hello! We are happy to announce the first beta release of dnsdist 1.7.0! We introduced a fair number of improvements and new features since the second alpha, and we will now iron out the documentation and fix any...

Second alpha release of dnsdist 1.7.0

Second alpha release of dnsdist 1.7.0

Hello! We are happy to announce the second alpha release of dnsdist 1.7.0! We spent quite some time since alpha1 reproducing an issue reported by Stéphane Bortzmeyer in our new outgoing DNS over TLS feature. The ...

First alpha release of dnsdist 1.7.0

First alpha release of dnsdist 1.7.0

Hello! We are proud to announce the first alpha release of dnsdist 1.7.0. This release contains several new exciting features, as well as improvements and bug fixes. In our view, the most exciting new feature is ...

dnsdist 1.6.1 released

dnsdist 1.6.1 released

Hello! We are happy to release dnsdist 1.6.1 today, a maintenance release fixing a few bugs reported since 1.6.0: Adding ECS failed for queries with records in the answer or additional section (Dimitrios Mavromma...

DNS cache snooping attack

DNS cache snooping attack

We have been getting questions about “DNS Server Cache Snooping Remote Information Disclosure” attacks lately, mostly coming from reports generated by one very popular security scanner: DNS Server Cache Snooping ...

dnsdist 1.6.0 released

dnsdist 1.6.0 released

Hello! We are proud to announce the final release of dnsdist 1.6.0, with no changes since the second release candidate. Compared to 1.5.x, this release contains several new exciting features, as well as improveme...

dnsdist 1.5.2 released

dnsdist 1.5.2 released

Hello! We are happy to release dnsdist 1.5.2 today, a maintenance release fixing a few bugs reported since 1.5.1: A typo in prometheus metrics dnsdist_frontend_tlshandshakefailures #9728 (AppliedPrivacy) A hang w...

Second release candidate for dnsdist 1.6.0

Second release candidate for dnsdist 1.6.0

Hi everyone, We are happy to announce the second release candidate of what should become dnsdist 1.6.0. This release contains very few changes since the first release candidate, and thanks to the great feedback w...

First release candidate for dnsdist 1.6.0

First release candidate for dnsdist 1.6.0

Hi everyone, We are happy to announce the first release candidate of what should become dnsdist 1.6.0. This release contains very few changes since the third alpha: Add missing getEDNSOptions and getDO bindings f...

Third Alpha Release of DNSDist 1.6.0

Third Alpha Release of DNSDist 1.6.0

Hi everyone, We are happy to announce the third alpha release of dnsdist 1.6.0. This release contains a few fixes for issues reported in the second alpha: DNS over HTTPS queries with a non-zero ID were not proper...