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Andrea Carpani on Jan 27, 2025

DNS serves as the essential entry point into the connected, online world for nearly all internet-based activities. While it opens up a wealth of opportunities, it also introduces unique challenges. This is why op...

Remi Gacogne on Dec 17, 2024

We released PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.8 today, fixing several issues:

Remi Gacogne on Oct 04, 2024

We released PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.7 today, fixing several issues:

Remi Gacogne on Sep 20, 2024

We released PowerDNS DNSdist 1.8.4 today, fixing a race condition in the handling of incoming DNS over TLS connections that can lead to a crash.

Remi Gacogne on Jul 16, 2024

We released PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.6 today, fixing minor bugs:

Remi Gacogne on Jun 20, 2024

We released PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.5 today, fixing minor bugs:

Remi Gacogne on May 13, 2024

We released PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.4 today. This release fixes CVE-2024-25581, a denial of service security issue affecting versions 1.9.0, 1.9.1, 1.9.2 and 1.9.3 only. Earlier versions are not affected.

Remi Gacogne on Apr 05, 2024

Less than an hour after the release of PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.2 today, we received reports of DNSdist crashing in some setups. This 1.9.3 release fixes the issue that was introduced in 1.9.2, for now by reverting t...

Remi Gacogne on Apr 05, 2024

We released PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.2 today. This release fixes several issues:

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...