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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 ...
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...