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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).
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0
Hello! PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0 was released today. Version 4.5.0 mostly brings small improvements and fixes, but there are two notable new features: The ‘zone cache’, which allows PowerDNS to keep a l...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0-RC2
Hello! Today we released the second, and hopefully last, Release Candidate for Authoritative Server version 4.5.0. Please try it! Version 4.5.0 mostly brings small improvements and fixes, but there are two notabl...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.4 Released
We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.4. This release contains a fix to an issue where the answer to a non-existent DS query was missing a SOA record. In particular this can be a problem i...
Building trust in European DNS resolvers
Open-Xchange recently announced its support for the European Resolver Policy, an industry initiative to provide more transparency and reliability around the operation of DNS resolvers in Europe.
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0-RC1
Hello! Today we released the first Release Candidate for Authoritative Server version 4.5.0. Please try it! Version 4.5.0 mostly brings small improvements and fixes, but there is one notable new feature: the zone...