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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...

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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...

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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).

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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.

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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...

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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?

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Nextcloud, Open-Xchange and Univention partner to create Sovereign Producti...

Chris Holder on Jan 29, 2021

Leading Open-Source software companies sign agreement to build industry first Three of the biggest names in Open-Source software, Nextcloud, Open-Xchange and Univention, have signed a partnership agreement to joi...

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