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First beta release of dnsdist 1.7.0
Remi Gacogne on Nov 16, 2021
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
Remi Gacogne on Oct 19, 2021
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
Remi Gacogne on Sep 23, 2021
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
Remi Gacogne on Sep 15, 2021
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
Remi Gacogne on Jun 01, 2021
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
Remi Gacogne on May 11, 2021
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
Remi Gacogne on May 10, 2021
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
Remi Gacogne on May 04, 2021
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
Remi Gacogne on Apr 20, 2021
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
Remi Gacogne on Mar 29, 2021
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...