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DNSdist 1.5.0 delivers enhancements for DoH and better performance
Open-Xchange has launched the latest version of DNSdist – our unique DNS proxy and load balancer that optimizes the internet experience of hundreds of millions of internet subscribers.
dnsdist 1.5.0 released
After four release candidates, we are thrilled to announce the final release of dnsdist 1.5.0! This new release contains several new exciting features and a few breaking changes since 1.4.0, so please read the up...
Fourth release candidate for dnsdist 1.5.0
While we expected the third release candidate for dnsdist 1.5.0 to be the last one, a race condition that could lead to a crash was discovered by Tomas Krizek from CZ.NIC with the DNS Shotgun tool, leading to a n...
Third release candidate for dnsdist 1.5.0
We are very happy to announce the third release candidate of dnsdist 1.5.0. 1.5.0 contains several new exciting features and a few breaking changes since 1.4.0 that were detailed in the announcement of alpha1. If...
Second release candidate for dnsdist 1.5.0
We are very happy to announce the second release candidate of dnsdist 1.5.0. 1.5.0 contains several new exciting features and a few breaking changes since 1.4.0 that were detailed in the announcement of alpha1. I...
First release candidate for dnsdist 1.5.0
We are very happy to announce the first release candidate of dnsdist 1.5.0. 1.5.0 contains several new exciting features and a few breaking changes since 1.4.0 that were detailed in the announcement of alpha1. If...
First alpha release of dnsdist 1.5.0
We are very happy to announce the 1.5.0 alpha 1 release of dnsdist. This version contains several new exciting features detailed below, but also a few breaking changes so please take the time to read the next sec...
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
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
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...