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PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.6 Released
We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.6. This release contains fixes to the way RPZ updates are handled and a fix to a case where traffic to a forwarder could be throttled while it should ...
First Alpha Release for Authoritative Server 4.6.0
Hello! Today we released the first Alpha version for Authoritative Server version 4.6.0. Version 4.6.0 mostly brings small improvements and fixes, but there are two notable new features: support for incoming PROX...
Check your DNS for 5G deficits
5G networks are installed in large numbers worldwide and the number of 5G subscribers is continuously increasing. These users benefit from the availability of 5G by being able to take full advantage of IoT device...
First Alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0
We are proud to announce the first alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0. Compared to the previous major (4.5) release of PowerDNS Recursor, this release contains two major sets of changes: a rewrite of the ou...
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
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...
Interview with John Todd on Quad9’s privacy-oriented global DNS Service
Quad9 uses PowerDNS to provide a worldwide encrypted DNS Service, a privacy-friendly public DNS resolving service for everyone. We talk to John Todd, General Manager - Quad9 Recursive Resolver, about why PowerDNS...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.5 and 4.5.5 Released
We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.5. and 4.5.5. Both releases contain an improvement to work around broken authoritative servers sending replies without the “authoritative answer” (AA)...
security advisory 2021-01 for PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0
Hello, today we have released PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.1, fixing a remotely triggered crash present in version 4.5.0. No other versions are affected. Tarballs and signatures are available at https://down...
DNS encryption in PowerDNS: where we are
Back in 2018, when the IETF introduced two standards on DNS encryption, PowerDNS was amongst the first to adopt and offer encrypted DNS through DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) and DNS-over-TLS (DoT).