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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
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
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...
dnsdist 1.7.0 released
Hello! We are proud to announce the release of dnsdist 1.7.0. This release contains several new exciting features since 1.6.1, as well as improvements and bug fixes. It contains one single change from the first r...
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.