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dnsdist 1.6.1 released

Remi Gacogne on Sep 15, 2021

Hello! We are happy to release dnsdist 1.6.1 today, a maintenance release fixing a few bugs reported since 1.6.0: Adding ECS failed for queries with records in the answer or additional section (Dimitrios Mavromma...

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Interview with John Todd on Quad9’s privacy-oriented global DNS Service

Oliver Michler on Sep 07, 2021

Quad9 uses PowerDNS to provide a worldwide encrypted DNS Service, a privacy-friendly public DNS resolving service for everyone. We talk to John Todd, General Manager - Quad9 Recursive Resolver, about why PowerDNS...

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DNS encryption in PowerDNS: where we are

Alexander ter Haar on Jul 13, 2021

Back in 2018, when the IETF introduced two standards on DNS encryption, PowerDNS was amongst the first to adopt and offer encrypted DNS through DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) and DNS-over-TLS (DoT).

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Building trust in European DNS resolvers

Vittorio Bertola on Jun 29, 2021

Open-Xchange recently announced its support for the European Resolver Policy, an industry initiative to provide more transparency and reliability around the operation of DNS resolvers in Europe.

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DNS cache snooping attack

Remi Gacogne on Jun 01, 2021

We have been getting questions about “DNS Server Cache Snooping Remote Information Disclosure” attacks lately, mostly coming from reports generated by one very popular security scanner: DNS Server Cache Snooping ...

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PowerDNS releases DNSdist 1.6.0

Alexander ter Haar on May 21, 2021

PowerDNS is pleased to announce the release of DNSdist 1.6.0, the latest version of its state-of-the-art DNS-aware load balancer, which protects, balances and filters internet users’ DNS traffic in front of Power...

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dnsdist 1.6.0 released

Remi Gacogne on May 11, 2021

Hello! We are proud to announce the final release of dnsdist 1.6.0, with no changes since the second release candidate. Compared to 1.5.x, this release contains several new exciting features, as well as improveme...

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dnsdist 1.5.2 released

Remi Gacogne on May 10, 2021

Hello! We are happy to release dnsdist 1.5.2 today, a maintenance release fixing a few bugs reported since 1.5.1: A typo in prometheus metrics dnsdist_frontend_tlshandshakefailures #9728 (AppliedPrivacy) A hang w...

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Second release candidate for dnsdist 1.6.0

Remi Gacogne on May 04, 2021

Hi everyone, We are happy to announce the second release candidate of what should become dnsdist 1.6.0. This release contains very few changes since the first release candidate, and thanks to the great feedback w...

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First release candidate for dnsdist 1.6.0

Remi Gacogne on Apr 20, 2021

Hi everyone, We are happy to announce the first release candidate of what should become dnsdist 1.6.0. This release contains very few changes since the third alpha: Add missing getEDNSOptions and getDO bindings f...

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