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

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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 Lion in recognition of her outstanding academic career and her commitment to the emancipation of women in computer science and engineering. We're so proud!

Thanks to the funding we’ve received from the Sovereign Tech Fund, this year we can have three full-time developers working on expanding our ‘domain’ library for Rust. The work done in the first quarter of the year has culminated in version 0.10.0 which – among a mountain of breaking changes and bug fixes – has three major new features.

The first of these new features is unstable-client-transport, which adds the client side of sending DNS messages over UDP, TCP, and TLS. These transports can either be used individually or combined into a “redundant transport” that tries and picks the best available destination.