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Fourth release candidate for dnsdist 1.4.0
Remi Gacogne on Oct 25, 2019
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
Remi Gacogne on Sep 30, 2019
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
Bert Hubert on Sep 25, 2019
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
Remi Gacogne on Sep 02, 2019
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
Remi Gacogne on Aug 12, 2019
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...

dnsdist 1.4.0-beta1
Remi Gacogne on Jun 06, 2019
We are very happy to announce the first beta release of the 1.4.0 version of dnsdist. This version fixes a crash in the DNS over HTTPS (DoH) implementation and adds a new rule to route queries based on the incomi...

How PowerDNS is Open Source & a successful business, or, why are we tal...
Bert Hubert on May 07, 2019
What does PowerDNS actually do? This is a good question, one we can ask about any company. How do they stay alive, what services do they deliver, who do they sell them to? For Open Source companies, the question ...

dnsdist 1.4.0-alpha2 with DNS over HTTPS support
Remi Gacogne on Apr 26, 2019
We are very happy to announce the second alpha release of the 1.4.0 version of dnsdist. This version keeps up the DNS privacy improvements with the addition of a new major feature, DNS over HTTPS (DoH), and conta...

First alpha release of dnsdist 1.4.0
Remi Gacogne on Apr 12, 2019
We are very happy to announce the 1.4.0 alpha 1 release of dnsdist. This version contains a few new features, but is mostly focused on DNS privacy improvements. We are introducing a new, much more scalable way of...

Enabling continuous fuzzing of PowerDNS products
Peter van Dijk on Dec 12, 2018
We are very happy to announce that PowerDNS recently joined the OSS-Fuzz initiative, enabling continuous fuzzing for critical parts of our products. We are taking this opportunity to share some of our existing se...