📚 IPFire 2.19 Linux Firewall Distribution Switches to Unbound as DNS Proxy

On the first day of November 2016, Michael Tremer from the IPFire project, an open source, professional, secure and hardened Linux-based firewall distribution, proudly announced the release of IPFire 2.19 Core Update 106. IPFire 2.19 Core Update 106 is the latest stable release of the Linux firewall OS, and it looks like it implements a new DNS proxy, namely Unbound, which replaces the Dnsmasq DNS forwarder and DHCP server used in previous releases. The decision was made because of the recent DNSSEC implementation by default in the distribution, and it proves to offer better DNSSEC reliability, enhanced features, such as import of static leases, and improved performance. "Because of our decision to enable DNSSEC by default and various problems in dnsmasq we have been toying with the idea of replacing it for a very long time," said Michael Tremer in the release announcement. "Unfortunately... ...