FAQ 109: What's new in DNS Redirector v7
Category: Everything Else | Updated: 11/17/2011 5:58:20 PM
DNS Redirector v7.1.0.1 is the latest, released to the public on 03/16/2011
- Ability to define multiple IPv4 and/or IPv6 addresses (comma separated)
...define secondary, tertiary upstream DNS servers
...supports DNS load sharing (multiple IPs in the answer back to clients)
- Regular expressions (regex) can be used in blocked/allowed keyword lists
- Supports larger keyword lists, loads changes without restarting the software
- Faster DNS response time <1ms
- Improved performance (really muti-threaded, runs as 32-bit or 64-bit)
- Improved GUI interface; sort by any column, faster refresh rate, better bypass toggling, and more client options
- Improved logging (goes into the \DailyLogs folder)
- Improved handling of different DNS record types (A, AAAA, MX, TXT, CNAME, SOA, NS, PTR, etc.)
- Added authonline.dnsredirctrl.com lookup, see FAQ 97
- Changed JoinType= valid options are Online/Auth/Both
- Added ResetClientFile= which when looked up sets client defaults (not authorized, not bypassing the block)
- Removed TimeRestriction options, see FAQ 128
- Ability to run as a native Windows service, see FAQ 73
- No dependency on VB6 runtimes or winsock
- Requires .NET Framework 4 Client Profile
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