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PowerDNS Authoritative 4.3.0 Beta 2

PowerDNS Authoritative 4.3.0 Beta 2

Hello! We are proud to announce the second, and hopefully last, beta release of what should become PowerDNS Authoritative 4.3.0. So far this is mostly a maintenance release, but there are a few interesting change...

Second Release Candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.0

Second Release Candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.0

Hello! We are proud to announce the second and hopefully last release candidate of what should become PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.0. Compared to the first release candidate, this release candidate changes the way RPZ p...

First Release Candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.0

First Release Candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.0

Hello! We are proud to announce the first release candidate of what should become PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.0. Compared to the second beta release, this release fixes a few RPZ related bugs. Additionally, a few other...

PowerDNS Authoritative 4.3.0-beta1

PowerDNS Authoritative 4.3.0-beta1

Hello! We are proud to announce the first beta release of what should become PowerDNS Authoritative 4.3.0. So far this is mostly a maintenance release. A lot of internals have been reworked, with some visible cha...

Second Beta Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.0

Second Beta Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.0

Hello! We are proud to announce the second beta release of what should become PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.0. Compared to the first beta release, this release fixes two bugs related to DNSSEC validation. Additionally, a...

First Beta Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.0

First Beta Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.0

Hello! We are proud to announce the first beta release of what should become PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.0. Compared to the third alpha release, this release enables QName-Minimization by default and introduces a less ...

PowerDNS Authoritative 4.3.0-alpha1

PowerDNS Authoritative 4.3.0-alpha1

Hello! We are proud to announce the first alpha release of what should become PowerDNS Authoritative 4.3.0. So far this is mostly a maintenance release. A lot of internals have been reworked, with some visible ch...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.2.1 Released

PowerDNS Recursor 4.2.1 Released

This is a maintenance release that fixes a few issues. In particular, a very slow creeping memory leak is plugged and an rare failure to resolve specific names when the dnssec configuration is set to validate has...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.15 Released

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.15 Released

This is a maintenance release that fixes a few issues. In particular, a very slow creeping memory leak is plugged and an rare failure to resolve specific names when the dnssec configuration is set to validate has...

DoH: (Anti-)Competitive and Network Neutrality aspects

DoH: (Anti-)Competitive and Network Neutrality aspects

Much has already been written on how moving to centralised DNS is bad for our privacy in 2019, and on that basis alone centralizing our DNS on a few large cloud providers seems like a bad idea. In this post, I wa...