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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0 Release Candidate 2
We are pleased to announce the second Release Candidate for Authoritative Server version 4.2.0. Many of our users have given RC1 a spin, and we very much appreciate their feedback. RC2 contains a host of minor ro...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.14 Released
This is a maintenance release that adds two counters for the number of queries received with the AD and CD bit set. The counters are named dnssec-authentic-data-queries and dnssec-check-disabled-queries, respecti...
dnsdist 1.4.0-beta1
We are very happy to announce the first beta release of the 1.4.0 version of dnsdist. This version fixes a crash in the DNS over HTTPS (DoH) implementation and adds a new rule to route queries based on the incomi...
DNS latency in a 5G network
With an estimated 1.5 billion of us expected to be connected to 5G networks by 2024, there’s no doubt that this next generation of wireless technology will have a profound effect on the future of technology and c...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.2.0 Release Candidate 1
We’re proud to announce Release Candidate 1 for the PowerDNS Recursor 4.2 release train. There have been some minor changes since the beta 1: #7818: Use net-snmp-config --netsnmp-agent-libs instead of --agent-lib...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.13 Released
This is a maintenance release to optionally reduce the performance impact of memory-statistics collection and a fix in the DNSSEC processing of wildcard records. The changelog: #7673: Add the disable-real-memory-...
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
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
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
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...