By Wouter Wijngaards, with contributions from Yorgos Thessalonikefs DNS-over-QUIC (DoQ) uses the QUIC transport mechanism to encrypt queries and responses. The DoQ transport for DNS is defined in RFC 9250. With the recent release, Unbound can be configured to support DoQ clients downstream. This feature is not a standard component and must be configured with […]
Introducing new DNS Diagnostics Tooling
In this DNS-centric edition of “Of Trees and Tries” we’re excited to share what we’ve been working on over the last few months. Before we get started, we have something special to share. Frances Brazier, legendary computer scientist and one of the founders of NLnet Labs, received a Knighthood in the Order of the Dutch […]
The Spring 2024 Newsletter
Welcome back to our newsletter “Of Trees and Tries”. In this spring edition, we’re excited to share what we’ve been working on and what’s coming up in the world of open-source, open standards and tech policy. DNS Benno and Alex started the year by sharing our thoughts on the next five years of DNS at […]
The Sovereign Tech Fund Bolsters Our Sustainable Open-Source Efforts
This year, NLnet Labs will celebrate its 25th anniversary. For two and a half decades, we have stayed true to our founding principle to offer free, open-source, liberally licensed software to support core Internet infrastructure. Throughout 2024, the Sovereign Tech Fund will support the development of one of our projects, the domain library for DNS, […]
Domain – DNS Building Blocks for Application Developers
In the previous article of this series, we presented our vision for DNS for the coming five years. In this post, we’ll outline this year’s milestones for expanding the domain crate, our Rust library serving as a collection of building blocks to include components of the DNS protocol in applications or to build specialised DNS […]