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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
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
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
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
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
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...
Second Alpha Release of DNSDist 1.6.0
Hi everyone, We are happy to announce the second alpha release of dnsdist 1.6.0. This release contains mostly fixes for issues reported in the first release candidate: A race condition was found to sometimes occu...
First Alpha Release of DNSDist 1.6.0
Hello! We are proud to announce the first alpha release of dnsdist 1.6.0. This release contains several new exciting features, as well as improvements and bug fixes. In our view, the most exciting new feature is ...
DNSDist 1.5.1 released
This release fixes a few issues discovered since 1.5.0: the thread handling responses sent from a backend was not stopped when that backend was removed ; getEDNSOptions() would throw an exception for queries with...
dnsdist 1.5.0 released
After four release candidates, we are thrilled to announce the final release of dnsdist 1.5.0! This new release contains several new exciting features and a few breaking changes since 1.4.0, so please read the up...