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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.6 & 4.1.5 and Recursor 4.0.9 & 4....
We’ve released PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.6 & 4.1.5 and Recursor 4.0.9 & 4.1.5. These are security releases with additional minor improvements and bug fixes. Minimal patches for the releases are av...
FOSDEM 2019 DNS devroom CfP
Hello DNS enthusiasts and other developers, After a successful and packed half-day DNS devroom at FOSDEM 2018, we are happy to announce a full-day DNS devroom at FOSDEM 2019. As with last year, we hope to host ta...
PowerDNS Protect: what’s in the box?
We have recently launched PowerDNS Protect to help telcos and service providers keep their customers’ homes and families of safe. PowerDNS Protect secures home and mobile networks against malware and Internet of ...
PowerDNS and the ICANN KSK roll
The root KSK rollover is currently planned for 1600 UTC on the 11th of October 2018 – a few days from now. If you are using PowerDNS Recursor for DNSSEC validation, please keep reading! During the KSK rollover, t...
Family and Network Protection with PowerDNS Protect
The onset of the ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) is affecting everybody: smart TVs, satellite navigation systems, fitness trackers, and even clocks and fridges are becoming an integral part of our everyday life. New t...
DNS: the solution to online security and control
Internet service providers all aim to provide fast and reliable access. With the growing importance of the Internet and the explosion in the number of connected devices in a household, improving security is becom...
Spoofing DNS with fragments
With some care, it turns out to be possible to spoof fake DNS responses using fragmented datagrams. While preparing a presentation for XS4ALL back in 2009, I found out how this could be done, but I never got roun...
On Firefox moving DNS to a third party
DNS lookups occur for every website visited. The processor of DNS requests gets a complete picture of what a household or phone is doing on the internet. In addition, DNS can be used to block sites or to discover...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.4 released
We’ve just released PowerDNS Recursor version 4.1.4, this is a maintenance release with no major changes. One new setting was added, this is the max-udp-queries-per-round, which controls the maximum amount of mes...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.4 released
We’re happy to announce the release of the PowerDNS Authoritative server version 4.1.4. This maintenance release features several bug fixes. The two most important being a fix in the handling of child-zones with ...