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Bert Hubert on May 07, 2019
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
Erik Winkels on May 07, 2019
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
Remi Gacogne on Apr 26, 2019
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
Remi Gacogne on Apr 12, 2019
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
Erik Winkels on Apr 03, 2019
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
Peter van Dijk on Mar 22, 2019
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
Peter van Dijk on Mar 19, 2019
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
Peter van Dijk on Mar 18, 2019
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
Peter van Dijk on Feb 28, 2019
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
Bert Hubert on Feb 07, 2019
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),...