Managing the Facebook outage with DNSdist
Earlier this week, the world was thrown into turmoil by a six-hour outage of Facebook and its associated platforms, WhatsApp and Instagram.
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Check your DNS for 5G deficits
Neil Cook
on Oct 6, 2021
5G networks are installed in large numbers worldwide and the number of 5G subscribers is continuously increasing. These users benefit from the availability of 5G by being able to take full advantage of IoT device...
Interview with John Todd on Quad9’s privacy-oriented global DNS Service
Oliver Michler
on Sep 7, 2021
Quad9 uses PowerDNS to provide a worldwide encrypted DNS Service, a privacy-friendly public DNS resolving service for everyone. We talk to John Todd, General Manager - Quad9 Recursive Resolver, about why PowerDNS...
DNS encryption in OX PowerDNS: where we are
Alexander ter Haar
on Jul 13, 2021
Back in 2018, when the IETF introduced two standards on DNS encryption, Open-Xchange and PowerDNS were amongst the first to adopt and offer encrypted DNS through DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) and DNS-over-TLS (DoT).
Building trust in European DNS resolvers
Vittorio Bertola
on Jun 29, 2021
Open-Xchange recently announced its support for the European Resolver Policy, an industry initiative to provide more transparency and reliability around the operation of DNS resolvers in Europe.
Open-Xchange releases DNSdist 1.6.0
Alexander ter Haar
on May 21, 2021
Open-Xchange is pleased to announce the release of DNSdist 1.6.0, the latest version of its state-of-the-art DNS-aware load balancer, which protects, balances and filters internet users’ DNS traffic in front of O...
OX App Suite Server Installation for Dummies
Malte Timmermann
on May 3, 2021
Ever wanted to install your own OX App Suite Server, but too lazy to configure a Linux system with all OX App Suite system requirements?
Bring interoperability back to the internet
Vittorio Bertola
on Apr 13, 2021
A group of 40 European tech companies led by Open-Xchange has written a letter to relevant members of the European Parliament, asking for strong interoperability requirements to be imposed on dominant internet pl...
Open-Xchange Launches Cloud Control 1.0 for Cloud-native DNS
Neil Cook
on Feb 17, 2021
In previous blog posts we have outlined the need for cloud-native services and the benefits of cloud-native DNS in particular: Network operators benefit from a faster time-to-market by removing of labor- and time...
New versions of OX App Suite, OX Documents and OX Guard available
Benjamin Otterbach
on Feb 10, 2021
We are pleased to announce the release of new versions of three of our products: Both our messaging and collaboration platform, OX App Suite, and office suite, OX Documents, now ship as version 7.10.5; And, OX Gu...
