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How PowerDNS is Open Source & a successful business, or, why are we talking about 5G?

How PowerDNS is Open Source & a successful business, or, why are we tal...

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

dnsdist 1.4.0-alpha2 with DNS over HTTPS support

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

First alpha release of dnsdist 1.4.0

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

Enabling continuous fuzzing of PowerDNS products

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...

Promoting a discussion on DNS-over-HTTPS

Promoting a discussion on DNS-over-HTTPS

In the last few months, we have seen a lot of community discussion around the latest development in the internet’s naming system, a new protocol called DNS-over-HTTPS. The DNS—the mechanism through which you can ...

dnsdist 1.3.3 released

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 ...

On Firefox moving DNS to a third party

On Firefox moving DNS to a third party

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

dnsdist 1.3.2 released

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

dnsdist 1.3.0 released

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

dnsdist 1.2.1 released

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:...