dnsdist 1.3.3 released
We are very happy to announce the 1.3.3 release of dnsdist. This release contains a few new features, but is mostly fixing a security issue reported since the release of dnsdist 1.3.2. Security fix While working ...
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On Firefox moving DNS to a third party
Bert Hubert
on Sep 04, 2018
DNS lookups occur for every website visited. The processor of DNS requests gets a complete picture of what a household or phone is doing on the internet. In addition, DNS can be used to block sites or to discover...
dnsdist 1.3.2 released
Remi Gacogne
on Jul 10, 2018
We are very happy to announce the 1.3.2 release of dnsdist. This release contains a few new features, but is mostly fixing bugs and documentation issues reported since the release of dnsdist 1.3.0. You might be w...
dnsdist 1.3.0 released
Remi Gacogne
on Mar 30, 2018
We are very happy to announce the 1.3.0 release of dnsdist, with a huge emphasis on privacy and scalability. Privacy A lot of users were interested in DNS over TLS support in dnsdist, to protect the privacy and i...
dnsdist 1.2.1 released
Remi Gacogne
on Feb 16, 2018
We are very pleased to announce the availability of dnsdist 1.2.1, fixing several issues that were found in 1.2.0: #5647: Make dnsdist dynamic truncate do right thing on TCP/IP #5686: Add missing QPSAction #5847:...
DNS performance metrics: the logarithmic percentile histogram
Peter van Dijk
on Nov 02, 2017
DNS performance is always a hot topic. No DNS-OARC, RIPE or IETF conference is complete without new presentations on DNS performance measurements. Most of these benchmarks focus on denial-of-service resistance: w...
dnsdist 1.2.0 released
Remi Gacogne
on Aug 21, 2017
We are very pleased to announce the availability of dnsdist 1.2.0, bringing a lot of new features and fixes since 1.1.0. This release also addresses two security issues of low severity, CVE-2016-7069 and CVE-2017...
dnsdist 1.1.0 released
Remi Gacogne
on Dec 29, 2016
We are very pleased to announce the availability of dnsdist 1.1.0. There have been very few changes since 1.1.0-beta2, the most significant ones being that we now handle header-only responses, and that “Refused” ...
dnsdist 1.1.0 Beta 2 released
Remi Gacogne
on Dec 14, 2016
We are pleased to announce the availability of the second beta release of dnsdist 1.1.0. We fixed several bugs since beta 1, especially in the TCP area, and added a few new features: EDNS Client Subnet can be con...
dnsdist 1.1.0 Beta 1 released
Remi Gacogne
on Sep 01, 2016
We are pleased to announce the availability of the first beta release of dnsdist 1.1.0. In addition to several bug-fixes and improvements, a lot of new features have been added since dnsdist 1.0.0, including but ...