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Centralised DoH is bad for privacy, in 2019 and beyond
Recently, Mozilla announced it would be moving Firefox DNS lookups to Cloudflare by default, for its American audience. There will be a notification about this for existing users, at which point they could choose...
First alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.3.0
We’re proud to announce the first alpha release for the PowerDNS Recursor 4.3 release train. Two major features are introduced: A relaxed form of QName Minimization as described in rfc7816bis-01 has been implemen...
Second release candidate for dnsdist 1.4.0
We are very happy to announce the second release candidate of the 1.4.0 version of dnsdist. This version adds one experimental feature, the ability to look into a Key-Value store like CDB or LMDB and to route a q...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0
Hello everybody! We are very happy to announce the release of Authoritative Server 4.2.0. Besides a ton of bug fixes (please see the Changelog), this release also offers a nice collection of new features. This re...
First release candidate for dnsdist 1.4.0
We are proud to announce the first release candidate of the 1.4.0 version of dnsdist. 1.4.0 brings a much more scalable way of handling DNS over TCP and DNS over TLS connections since the first alpha release. A m...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0 Release Candidate 3
Thanks to an overwhelming amount of testing by our fabulous user community, this release candidate contains a ton of bug fixes (and a few improvements) compared to the previous one. We hope this has shaken out al...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.13 Released
The 4.1.12 release was skipped due to a packaging issue. This is a bugfix release for high traffic setups using the pipebackend or remotebackend. It contains the following changes: gpgsqlbackend: add missing sche...
PowerDNS at DNS Events
Part of my job as Presales Engineer at PowerDNS is to attend conferences which are related to DNS,to see the latest trends, and also discuss those topics with the community.
Security Notice for PowerDNS+Postgres Users
Hello, Last Tuesday we published PowerDNS Security Advisory 2019-06, which called for a schema update if you are using PostgreSQL with the Authoritative Server. We have now released updated packages for the 4.0.x...