After being in development for the past two weeks, IPFire 2.19 Core Update 109 has today hit the stable channel and it’s a recommended upgrade for all those who use the IPFire 2.19 series of the open-source, Linux-based firewall distro.
As noted in our previous report, the most important feature of IPFire 2.19 Core Update 109 is the inclusion of the unbound 1.6.0 recursive and caching DNS resolver in the distro’s built-in DNS proxy to address some important bugs, re-activate QNAME minimisation and hardening below NX domains, and implement the ability for the firewall to check if a router loses longer DNS responses.
“At start time, IPFire now also checks if a router in front of IPFire drops DNS responses which are longer than a certain threshold (some Cisco devices do this to “harden” DNS),” <a href="http://www.ipfire… (read more)
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