Recent News

Simple DNS Plus v. 6.0 build 124 is now available at https://simpledns.plus/download.

This release includes the following bug fixes and update:

- Fixed: Crash when receiving HTTP API requests formatted a certain way - Fixed: Failed to auto-activate license on IPv6 Internet connected computer. - Update: Updated various Internet links throughout UI.

This is NOT a critical update, and you only need to update if you are affected by the issues described above.

Simple DNS Plus v. 6.0 build 121 is now available at https://simpledns.plus/download.

This release includes the following updates and bug fixes:

- Update: Installer signed with "code sign" certificate. To improve download / install experience. - Update: Resolving domain names hosted on DNS servers that do not respond correctly to DNS0X20 (random letter casing query name), now works faster and in more scenarios. - Fixed: Raw log files might get corrupted in case of an abrupt power cut...

Simple DNS Plus v. 6.0 build 120 is now available at https://simpledns.plus/download.

This release includes the following updates and bug fixes:

- Update: About dialog now shows partial license key. To identify which license is used. - Update: Updated help file. New styling. - Update: SRV-record properties dialog - added suggested service "sipfederationtls" and protocol "tls" (typically used for Office 365 setup) - Fixed: HTTP API allowed adding ALIAS-records which conflict with...

Simple DNS Plus v. 6.0 build 119 is now available at https://simpledns.plus/download.

This release includes the following bug fixes and updates:

- Update: Included DynDns plug-in now supports dyn.com update URL formats - for use with dyndns built into many NAT routers. Details. - Update: "Custom" option in installer is back (was temporarily removed in build 118). - Fixed: Unknown HTTP API call caused program crash with .NET exception System.Net.ProtocolViolationException "Cannot send...

We have just added a new option to the DynDNS Service plug-in for Simple DNS Plus, which allows you to intercept dyndns.org (Dyn.com) updates.

Many Internet/NAT routers (and other devices) have a built-in function to update a dyndns service (a.k.a. "ddns") whenever the public IP address changes. This is often hard-coded to use a few specific dyndns providers / update formats, and dyndns.org (Dyn.com) is typically one of these. With Simple DNS Plus (on a public static IP address), you can...

Simple DNS Plus v. 6.0 build 118 is now available at https://simpledns.plus/download.

This release includes the following bug fixes and updates:

- Fixed: Installer issues on Windows Server 2016 / Windows 10. - Fixed: DNS Records / Export Wizard / IP addresses to "hosts" or ".csv" file - would crash program (record editor only) when using the ".csv" file format option and one or more AAAA-records were included. - Update: Added "autodiscover" to SRV-record service drop-down options. -...

Simple DNS Plus v. 6.0 build 116 is now available at https://simpledns.plus/download.

This release includes the following updates and bug fixes:

- Fixed: Incorrect response to DS-record query when both delegating parent and child zones present on server. - Fixed: In some scenarios, re-using a zone SOA-serial number caused a database conflict and program crash. - Fixed: Extremely long log lines (+32767 characters) would in some situations cause program crash. - Fixed: Clicking "Scan...

We have published the source code for the GeoDNS plug-in at GitHub: https://github.com/jhsoftware/sdns-GeoDNS.

The plug-in is released into the public domain as open source. You are most welcome to fork the source code, contribute code enhancements, and/or use the source code as a starting point for developing your own plug-ins.

For a full list of plug-ins available for Simple DNS Plus click here.

For details on developing plug-ins for Simple DNS Plus click here.

We are removing the "SDNSFileLib" library and the "FilterRawLog" tool from the Simple DNS Plus installer, and instead making updated versions of these available for download and as open source.

"Raw Log" Library

The "SDNSFileLib" library has been renamed "Raw Log Library" because it now only deals with raw log files (we have removed methods for accessing Simple DNS Plus v. 5.x zone databases). And we have simplified it a bit, and open sourced it on GitHub.

This .NET library (.dll)...

Simple DNS Plus v. 6.0 build 113 is now available at https://simpledns.plus/download.

This release includes the following updates and bug fixes:

- Added: DNS Look Up - new WHOIS option: "Response encoding" (UTF-8/ASCII, Windows-1252) - Update: Response to inverse queries now always "not implemented" to satisfy security scanners (might have been "format error" depending on query content). - Fixed: Import Wizard function to import from Boot file would not import any zones ("Failed to...