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dnsdist-1.7.2 released
Hello! We are very happy to release dnsdist 1.7.2 today, a maintenance release fixing a few bugs reported since 1.7.1: An unhandled exception could happen when an invalid protocol was used in an incoming DNS over...
Probing DoT Support of Authoritative Servers: Just Try It
This is the second part of a series of blog posts we are publishing, mostly around recent developments with respect to PowerDNS Recursor. The first blog post was Refreshing Of Almost Expired Records: Keeping The ...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.0 Released
We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.0. Compared to the previous major (4.6) release of PowerDNS Recursor, this release contains the following major changes: A configurable way of adding ...
First Release Candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.0
We are proud to announce the first release candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.0. Testing of this release candidate is much appreciated! The most important change compared to the 4.7.0-beta1 release is a fix for t...
Refreshing Of Almost Expired Records: Keeping The Cache Hot
We’re planning to do a series of posts to highlight some of the features we have been working in recent releases or the Recursor. We also plan to discuss some C++ programming techniques we used in the Recursor th...
dnsdist 1.7.1 released
Hello! We are very happy to release dnsdist 1.7.1 today, a maintenance release fixing a few bugs reported since 1.7.0: A use-after-free error could happen if a network error occurred in the middle of a XFR query,...
First Beta Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.0
We are proud to announce the first beta release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.0. Compared to the previous major (4.6) release of PowerDNS Recursor, this release contains the following major changes: A configurable way...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.6.2
Hello! Today we published release 4.6.2 of the Authoritative Server. It contains a carefully selected set of new features, plus a few bug fixes. Please find a full list in the changelog. Please make sure to read ...
FALCON-512 in PowerDNS
We are proud to introduce the first guest post on our blog! A team of researchers (listed below) has chosen PowerDNS as the basis for an implementation of post-quantum DNSSEC signing with the FALCON-512 algorithm...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.2 and 4.5.9 Released
We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.2 and 4.5.9. Both releases are maintenance releases correcting an issue where a reload of a Lua script could cause in-flight queries to fail and an im...