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Improving DNSdist performance with AF_XDP

Neil Cook on Mar 15, 2024

This is the second in a series of three blog posts we are publishing about recent innovative developments with respect to our DNS proxy and load balancer PowerDNS DNSdist. The previous blog post explained the ove...

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PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.1

Remi Gacogne on Mar 14, 2024

We released PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.1 today. This version brings no functional changes, and only bumps the version of the Quiche library we use, to incorporate a recent security update, fixing CVE-2024-1410 and CVE-...

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PowerDNS’ progress in DNS encryption

Andrea Carpani on Feb 27, 2024

Like many other internet protocols, DNS started life as an unencrypted protocol. With the increasing recognition of internet users’ right to more privacy and security, the IETF started to introduce encryption to ...

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PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.0 released

Remi Gacogne on Feb 16, 2024

We are very happy to release PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.0 today! This new version brings a fair number of new features since 1.8.3: - DNS over QUIC - DNS over HTTP3 - AF_XDP support - the ability to set Extended DNS Er...

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First release candidate of PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.0

Remi Gacogne on Jan 30, 2024

We are excited to release the first release candidate of what will become PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.0! The latest addition to DNSdist is AF_XDP support. AF_XDP is a Linux feature optimized for high performance packet ...

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PowerDNS DNSdist 1.8.3 released

Remi Gacogne on Dec 15, 2023

We are very happy to release PowerDNS DNSdist 1.8.3 today, a maintenance release fixing a few bugs reported since 1.8.2:

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Fourth alpha release of PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.0

Remi Gacogne on Dec 14, 2023

We are thrilled to release the fourth alpha release of what will become PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.0! The most exciting new feature in this latest alpha is support for DNS over HTTP/3! Like DNS over QUIC for which we a...

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Third alpha release of PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.0

Remi Gacogne on Oct 20, 2023

We are thrilled to release the third alpha release of what will become PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.0! Let's first address the elephant in the room: the second alpha was never released due to a last-minute issue discover...

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PowerDNS DNSdist 1.7.5 and 1.8.2 released

Remi Gacogne on Oct 11, 2023

Today we have released DNSdist 1.7.5 and 1.8.2, with absolutely no changes with, respectively, 1.7.4 and 1.8.1, apart from the fact that our own DNSdist packages have been rebuilt against our own fork of libh2o i...

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First alpha release of DNSdist 1.9.0

Remi Gacogne on Sep 18, 2023

We are very happy to be releasing the first alpha release of what will become DNSdist 1.9.0!

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