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First release candidate of dnsdist 1.7.0
Hello! We are happy to announce the first release candidate of what will become dnsdist 1.7.0, with only one fix and one improvement since the second beta. We fixed a crash introduced in 1.7.0-alpha1 that could o...
PowerDNS and Log4J/Log4Shell
As you may have heard, a critical vulnerability in the Log4J library was published recently. We have received questions about our software’s vulnerability to these exploits. None of our open source products use J...
Second beta release of dnsdist 1.7.0
Hello! We are happy to announce the second beta release of dnsdist 1.7.0, with few fixes since the first beta, the most important one being a memory leak when reusing TLS sessions for outgoing DNS over TLS and DN...
First beta release of dnsdist 1.7.0
Hello! We are happy to announce the first beta release of dnsdist 1.7.0! We introduced a fair number of improvements and new features since the second alpha, and we will now iron out the documentation and fix any...
Second alpha release of dnsdist 1.7.0
Hello! We are happy to announce the second alpha release of dnsdist 1.7.0! We spent quite some time since alpha1 reproducing an issue reported by Stéphane Bortzmeyer in our new outgoing DNS over TLS feature. The ...
Managing the Facebook outage with DNSdist
Earlier this week, the world was thrown into turmoil by a six-hour outage of Facebook and its associated platforms, WhatsApp and Instagram.
First alpha release of dnsdist 1.7.0
Hello! We are proud to announce the first alpha release of dnsdist 1.7.0. This release contains several new exciting features, as well as improvements and bug fixes. In our view, the most exciting new feature is ...
dnsdist 1.6.1 released
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...
Interview with John Todd on Quad9’s privacy-oriented global DNS Service
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...
DNS encryption in PowerDNS: where we are
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).