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Keeping your family safe and secure online
Securing all of the various devices in your home is vital to prevent cyber-attacks and to close gateways to harmful content. But this can be tough when you have an entire family to protect, which may include youn...
dnsdist 1.3.2 released
We are very happy to announce the 1.3.2 release of dnsdist. This release contains a few new features, but is mostly fixing bugs and documentation issues reported since the release of dnsdist 1.3.0. You might be w...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.3 Released
We’re pleased to announce the availability of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server version 4.1.3. This is a maintenance release addressing a performance issue in the GeoIP backend and fixes several other issues. The...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.3 Released
This release improves the stability and resiliency of the RPZ implementation, prevents metrics gathering from slowing down the processing of DNS queries and fixes an issue related to the cleaning of EDNS Client S...
Authoritative server 4.1.2 released
This is the third release in the 4.1 train. Besides bug fixes, it contains some performance and usability improvements. Please find the most important changes below. For full details, visit the changelog. Improve...
dnsdist 1.3.0 released
We are very happy to announce the 1.3.0 release of dnsdist, with a huge emphasis on privacy and scalability. Privacy A lot of users were interested in DNS over TLS support in dnsdist, to protect the privacy and i...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.2 Released
This release improves the stability and resiliency of the RPZ implementation and fixes several issues related to EDNS Client Subnet. The full changelog looks like this: New Features #6344: Add FFI version of gett...
Removing EDNS Workarounds
In a coordinated effort between PowerDNS, ISC, CZ.NIC and NLnetlabs, starting Feb 1 2019, workarounds for severely broken EDNS setups will be removed from our collective body of software. For the PowerDNS Recurso...
“The DNS Camel”, or, the rise in DNS complexity
This week was my first IETF visit. Although I’ve been active in several IETF WGs for nearly twenty years, I had never bothered to show up in person. I now realize this was a very big mistake – I thoroughly enjoye...
Authoritative server 4.1.1 released
Released: 16th of Feburary 2018 This is the second release in the 4.1 train. This is a bug-fix only release, with fixes to the LDAP and MySQL backends, the pdnsutil tool, and PDNS internals. Changes since 4.1.1: ...