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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
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
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
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
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
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...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.1 Released
This release fixes several bugs and makes a few features more robust or intuitive. It also contains a few performance improvements for API users. Please see the changelog for more details. The tarball (signature)...
Encrypt your DNS traffic with DNSdist 1.4.0
Open-Xchange is excited to announce the release of a new version of its DNS loadbalancer DNSdist. DNSdist is a unique DNS proxy and load balancer that brings out the best possible performance in any DNS deploymen...
dnsdist 1.4.0
After five release candidates, we are thrilled to finally announce the release of dnsdist 1.4.0 ! This new major version has been used in production by several large operators since the first release candidate, i...
dnsdist 1.4.0-rc5 released
We are happy to announce the fifth release candidate of the 1.4.0 version of dnsdist. This release fixes a regression introduced in DNS over HTTPS handling in 1.4.0-rc4 that could lead to a crash under heavy load...