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PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.6 released

Remi Gacogne on Jul 16, 2024

We released PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.6 today, fixing minor bugs:

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PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.5 released

Remi Gacogne on Jun 20, 2024

We released PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.5 today, fixing minor bugs:

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PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.4 released

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.

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PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.3 released

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...

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PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.2 released

Remi Gacogne on Apr 05, 2024

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

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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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