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Building trust in European DNS resolvers
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.
DNS cache snooping attack
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 ...
PowerDNS releases DNSdist 1.6.0
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...
dnsdist 1.6.0 released
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...
dnsdist 1.5.2 released
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...
Second release candidate for dnsdist 1.6.0
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...
First release candidate for dnsdist 1.6.0
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...
Third Alpha Release of DNSDist 1.6.0
Hi everyone, We are happy to announce the third alpha release of dnsdist 1.6.0. This release contains a few fixes for issues reported in the second alpha: DNS over HTTPS queries with a non-zero ID were not proper...
Upcoming package removals
As you may know, PowerDNS hosts RPM and Debian packages in our package repositories. Packages are available in binary form as RPM and Debian packages for various distributions. Some of these distributions are com...
Second Alpha Release of DNSDist 1.6.0
Hi everyone, We are happy to announce the second alpha release of dnsdist 1.6.0. This release contains mostly fixes for issues reported in the first release candidate: A race condition was found to sometimes occu...