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PowerDNS’ progress in DNS encryption
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 ...
PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.0 released
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...
First release candidate of PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.0
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 ...
PowerDNS DNSdist 1.8.3 released
We are very happy to release PowerDNS DNSdist 1.8.3 today, a maintenance release fixing a few bugs reported since 1.8.2:
Fourth alpha release of PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.0
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...
Third alpha release of PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.0
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...
PowerDNS DNSdist 1.7.5 and 1.8.2 released
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...
First alpha release of DNSdist 1.9.0
We are very happy to be releasing the first alpha release of what will become DNSdist 1.9.0!
PowerDNS DNSdist 1.8.1 released
We are very happy to release DNSdist 1.8.1 today, a maintenance release fixing a few bugs reported since 1.8.0:
OpenWrt Repositories for DNSdist Now Available from PowerDNS
OpenWrt, the popular open-source GNU/Linux distribution for embedded devices (typically wireless routers), enables users to fully customize and enhance their networking devices. One of the key strengths of OpenWr...