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How PowerDNS is Open Source & a successful business, or, why are we talking about 5G?

How PowerDNS is Open Source & a successful business, or, why are we tal...

What does PowerDNS actually do? This is a good question, one we can ask about any company. How do they stay alive, what services do they deliver, who do they sell them to? For Open Source companies, the question ...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.2.0 Beta 1 Released

PowerDNS Recursor 4.2.0 Beta 1 Released

The Beta 1 release comes with a lot of bug fixes, improvements and also some new features: Add a new max-cache-bogus-ttl option to cap the TTL of a record that has been validated as Bogus in the query cache, so i...

dnsdist 1.4.0-alpha2 with DNS over HTTPS support

dnsdist 1.4.0-alpha2 with DNS over HTTPS support

We are very happy to announce the second alpha release of the 1.4.0 version of dnsdist. This version keeps up the DNS privacy improvements with the addition of a new major feature, DNS over HTTPS (DoH), and conta...

First alpha release of dnsdist 1.4.0

First alpha release of dnsdist 1.4.0

We are very happy to announce the 1.4.0 alpha 1 release of dnsdist. This version contains a few new features, but is mostly focused on DNS privacy improvements. We are introducing a new, much more scalable way of...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.12 Released

PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.12 Released

This is a maintenance release with improvements for high-performance sites (and a wild bug fix appeared). The changelog: #7634: Use a bounded load-balancing algo to distribute queries. #7651: Implement a configur...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.8 Released

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.8 Released

This release contains a bunch of backports, improvements and bug fixes that we wanted in the 4.1.x release channel after the 4.1.7 security release was out of the door. Please see the changelog for full details: ...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0 Release Candidate 1 Released

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0 Release Candidate 1 Released

This release fixes an issue with security implications that has been recently reported in the HTTP remote backend of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server. Setups that are not using this backend are not impacted by t...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.7 and 4.1.7 Released

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.7 and 4.1.7 Released

These two releases fix an issue with security implications that has been recently reported in the HTTP remote backend of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server. Setups that are not using this backend are not impacted ...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0 Beta 1 Released

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0 Beta 1 Released

It has been too long a time since the release of PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0-alpha1. The Beta 1 release comes with a lot of bug fixes, improvements and also some new features: LMDB backend, Fixes for Open...

The big DNS Privacy Debate at FOSDEM

The big DNS Privacy Debate at FOSDEM

This weekend at the excellent FOSDEM gathering there were no less than three presentations on DNS over HTTPs. Daniel Stenberg presented a keynote session “DNS over HTTPS – the good, the bad and the ugly” (video),...