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BT starts DoH trial with DNSdist

BT starts DoH trial with DNSdist

It is very likely that you heard and read a lot about the importance of DNS encryption in the last few months. Open-Xchange emphasizes the importance of DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and DNS over TLS (DoT), as well as the...

DoH: (Anti-)Competitive and Network Neutrality aspects

DoH: (Anti-)Competitive and Network Neutrality aspects

Much has already been written on how moving to centralised DNS is bad for our privacy in 2019, and on that basis alone centralizing our DNS on a few large cloud providers seems like a bad idea. In this post, I wa...

Encrypt your DNS traffic with DNSdist 1.4.0

Encrypt your DNS traffic with DNSdist 1.4.0

Open-Xchange is excited to announce the release of a new version of its DNS loadbalancer DNSdist. DNSdist is a unique DNS proxy and load balancer that brings out the best possible performance in any DNS deploymen...

dnsdist 1.4.0

dnsdist 1.4.0

After five release candidates, we are thrilled to finally announce the release of dnsdist 1.4.0 ! This new major version has been used in production by several large operators since the first release candidate, i...

dnsdist 1.4.0-rc5 released

dnsdist 1.4.0-rc5 released

We are happy to announce the fifth release candidate of the 1.4.0 version of dnsdist. This release fixes a regression introduced in DNS over HTTPS handling in 1.4.0-rc4 that could lead to a crash under heavy load...

Fourth release candidate for dnsdist 1.4.0

Fourth release candidate for dnsdist 1.4.0

We are very happy to announce the fourth release candidate of the 1.4.0 version of dnsdist. Unless a serious issue is discovered, we plan on releasing the final 1.4.0 release in a couple of weeks with no or very ...

Third release candidate for dnsdist 1.4.0

Third release candidate for dnsdist 1.4.0

We are very happy to announce the third, and hopefully last, release candidate of the 1.4.0 version of dnsdist. This version adds the ability to accept DNS over HTTPS queries over HTTP, in order to be able to use...

Centralised DoH is bad for privacy, in 2019 and beyond

Centralised DoH is bad for privacy, in 2019 and beyond

Recently, Mozilla announced it would be moving Firefox DNS lookups to Cloudflare by default, for its American audience. There will be a notification about this for existing users, at which point they could choose...

Second release candidate for dnsdist 1.4.0

Second release candidate for dnsdist 1.4.0

We are very happy to announce the second release candidate of the 1.4.0 version of dnsdist. This version adds one experimental feature, the ability to look into a Key-Value store like CDB or LMDB and to route a q...

First release candidate for dnsdist 1.4.0

First release candidate for dnsdist 1.4.0

We are proud to announce the first release candidate of the 1.4.0 version of dnsdist. 1.4.0 brings a much more scalable way of handling DNS over TCP and DNS over TLS connections since the first alpha release. A m...