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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 ...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.6 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Oct 11, 2021
We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.6. 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 ...

Managing the Facebook outage with DNSdist
Robert Brandt on Oct 08, 2021
Earlier this week, the world was thrown into turmoil by a six-hour outage of Facebook and its associated platforms, WhatsApp and Instagram.

PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.6 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Oct 08, 2021
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
Peter van Dijk on Oct 07, 2021
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
Neil Cook on Oct 06, 2021
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
Otto Moerbeek on Sep 29, 2021
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
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...

Interview with John Todd on Quad9’s privacy-oriented global DNS Service
Oliver Michler on Sep 07, 2021
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...