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DNSdist as a router-ready solution

DNSdist as a router-ready solution

As you might have read, with the release of DNSdist 1.8, PowerDNS brings DNS encryption with DNS over TLS (DoT) and DNS over HTTPS (DoH) to CPEs and therefore protects the confidentiality and integrity of traffic...

PowerDNS DNSdist 1.8.0 Released

PowerDNS DNSdist 1.8.0 Released

We are thrilled to release DNSdist 1.8.0 today! This 1.8.0 release contains a significant amount of changes since the last major release, 1.7.0, which was released a bit over a year ago.

Third Release Candidate of PowerDNS DNSdist 1.8.

Third Release Candidate of PowerDNS DNSdist 1.8.

We are very happy to release the third candidate of what will become dnsdist 1.8.0!

Second Release Candidate of PowerDNS DNSdist 1.8.0

Second Release Candidate of PowerDNS DNSdist 1.8.0

We are very happy to release the second candidate of what will become dnsdist 1.8.0! This release contains fixes for a few issues that were found in the first release candidate, the most important one being that ...

First Release Candidate of PowerDNS DNSdist 1.8.0

First Release Candidate of PowerDNS DNSdist 1.8.0

Hello! We are very happy to release the first candidate of what will become dnsdist 1.8.0! This release contains a significant amount of changes since the last major release, 1.7.0, which was released a bit over ...

dnsdist 1.7.3 released

dnsdist 1.7.3 released

Hello! We are very happy to release dnsdist 1.7.3 today, a maintenance release with no functional changes. This release strictly serves to bring dnsdist packages to our EL9 and Ubuntu Jammy repositories, and upgr...

dnsdist-1.7.2 released

dnsdist-1.7.2 released

Hello! We are very happy to release dnsdist 1.7.2 today, a maintenance release fixing a few bugs reported since 1.7.1: An unhandled exception could happen when an invalid protocol was used in an incoming DNS over...

dnsdist 1.7.1 released

dnsdist 1.7.1 released

Hello! We are very happy to release dnsdist 1.7.1 today, a maintenance release fixing a few bugs reported since 1.7.0: A use-after-free error could happen if a network error occurred in the middle of a XFR query,...

Moving CentOS 8 builds to Oracle Linux 8

Moving CentOS 8 builds to Oracle Linux 8

As you might be aware, CentOS 8 has reached End of Life on December 31st 2021. Furthermore, yesterday, CentOS 8 actually disappeared from the distribution mirrors. While we had made plans for this, we failed to e...