In every large organization, the network is the quiet backbone of the business. Employees expect to connect from anywhere, applications span multiple clouds and customers rely on digital services 24/7. Behind the scenes, critical network services like DNS, DHCP and IP address management, or DDI, keep all of that running.
When those services slow down, fail or send traffic to the wrong place, the impact is immediate. Employees can’t work. Customers can’t reach what they need. Every minute of disruption erodes productivity, revenue and trust. At the same time, the teams running these services are being asked to do more with less: support new cloud projects and AI initiatives, meet tougher security and compliance rules, all while holding the line on budget and headcount.
NIOS 9.1.0 is designed for exactly this reality. It delivers the biggest expansion of the Infoblox NIOS DDI platform in years, so you can get more value for your NIOS investment, automate more of the work that slows you down and strengthen security and resilience without overhauling your infrastructure.
More Value for Your NIOS Investment
Modern network teams are under constant pressure to strengthen security and integrate foundational services like DNS with the organization’s broader security and visibility ecosystem—ideally, without adding more point products or budget line items. With NIOS 9.1.0, more of what you need is already built into the platform you trust, including:
- Stronger Security, Simpler Compliance with Included DNS Encryption: Thousands of businesses face stricter privacy expectations and Zero Trust mandates from regulators like the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), with DNS security a primary focus. By including DNS‑over‑TLS (DoT) and DNS‑over‑HTTPS (DoH) encryption in the core product—capabilities that used to require separate licensing—NIOS 9.1.0 lets you encrypt DNS traffic at scale without adding more products. You can protect against snooping and tampering, reduce risk of man‑in‑the‑middle attacks and align with CISA mandates and best-practice guidance from the National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST) with the same DDI platform you use to run your network.
- High‑Speed DNS Visibility with dnstap Logging: NetOps and SecOps teams need detailed DNS telemetry for audits, threat hunting and incident response, but traditional query logging can be so resource-intensive that it threatens stability. NIOS 9.1.0 adds dnstap high‑speed logging as a built‑in capability, so you can stream rich DNS data to your analytics stack without overloading the infrastructure or risking self‑inflicted outages.
- Event‑Driven Notifications with the NIOS Outbound Event API: Security, IT and operations tools cannot stay in sync if they only learn about changes after the fact. With NIOS 9.1.0, the NIOS outbound event API—previously tied to a separate Ecosystem License—is now part of core NIOS. You can automatically notify other systems when important events occur, such as a new IP lease or a DNS firewall hit, and trigger scans, update configuration management database (CMDB) entries or open incidents without manual handoffs or fragile scripts.
Together, these changes help you better meet modern privacy, observability and integration requirements with NIOS itself, instead of needing extra licenses and SKUs.1
Automation That Keeps Pace with Your Business
For organizations moving applications to the cloud, turning up new sites or deploying AI initiatives, manual DDI processes become a hard speed limit. Teams can only move so quickly when they have to fill out tickets, wait for approvals and type entries into multiple consoles for even basic DNS or DHCP changes, while the rest of the stack move at DevOps speed. That is why Infoblox has been investing in making NIOS easier to automate and integrate with standard API frameworks and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools.
In recent releases, NIOS added OpenAPI specifications with a built‑in Swagger UI and updated our Terraform Provider with full API coverage. As a result, teams can now discover and test NIOS APIs in a browser, auto‑generate clients and fold NIOS changes into the same automation frameworks they use for the rest of the environment. DNS, DHCP and IP address management (IPAM) updates can now use the same continuous integration (CI)/continuous delivery (CD) pipelines as application and infrastructure changes, without waiting on manual DNS or IP updates—shortening delivery cycles, reducing handoffs between teams and making it less likely that a missed change will cause an outage late in the process.it less likely that a missed change will cause an outage late in the process.
NIOS 9.1.0 further advances standards-based automation by adding immutable Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs) for NIOS objects. If you have ever watched a script or Terraform module break because someone changed a name or moved an object, you know how fragile automation can become. UUIDs provide a stable anchor for every object, so teams developing automation code can track resources across their lifecycle, reduce configuration drift and simplify logic. Automation becomes cleaner, more predictable and easier to maintain as environments grow.
NIOS 9.1.0 also adds OAuth 2.0 with OpenID Connect (OIDC) API authentication for Ping Identity and refines how NIOS models the IP space for Azure so it matches common cloud patterns. These changes serve the same goal: letting you plug NIOS into modern automation and identity workflows without workarounds, so pipelines can authenticate with standards‑based tokens instead of brittle passwords and cloud‑driven provisioning can treat NIOS as a first‑class part of the process. As more day‑to‑day DDI work gets automated, you reduce manual effort and errors, shorten rollout times and free in-house automation experts to focus on projects that move the business forward.
Security, Resilience and Compliance You Can Count On
As regulations evolve and infrastructure spreads to new locations and clouds, organizations cannot afford to treat DDI as a static, once-and-done technology implementation. To preserve rock-solid application availability and performance amidst changing architectures, security requirements and use cases, these critical network services must evolve right alongside the rest of the IT stack.
NIOS 9.1.0 is the latest culmination of Infoblox’s long‑term investment in customer‑driven innovation. Across recent releases, NIOS has delivered more than 110 major features and enhancements prompted directly by customer requests. The goal is simple: whether you already rely on NIOS as the backbone of your connectivity or are adopting it for the first time, you should keep seeing more security, resilience and value from that investment over time, not less.
In this release, that ongoing investment shows up in several key areas that matter to how you operate:
- High availability (HA) in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) so you can apply familiar NIOS HA patterns consistently across all major public clouds—AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and now Oracle—and avoid building one‑off designs for each environment.
- Expanded IPv6 DNS/DHCP management for Microsoft environments so you can meet IPv6 mandates, including IPv6‑only deployments, while still managing everything through a single, centralized platform.
- Improved global traffic steering resilience in NIOS DNS Traffic Control, with more granular control over how traffic fails over between sites and how applications respond when specific locations are under stress.
- Easier DNSSEC configuration aligned with Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) guidance (RFC 9276), so you can run DNSSEC in a way that balances security and performance, and simplify the audits and reviews that go with it.
These are not abstract features. They are concrete ways to keep services online, configurations consistent and auditors satisfied as your environment evolves.
Keep Moving Forward with the Platform You Trust
Your business is not slowing down. You will keep adding new applications, expanding to new sites and clouds and responding to new security and compliance demands. The question is whether your foundational DNS, DHCP and IPAM services can keep up without forcing constant re‑platforming. With NIOS 9.1.0, you can:
- Gain more value from existing NIOS deployments, with DNS encryption, high‑speed logging and event‑driven integrations now built into the core product
- Use modern automation frameworks to manage DDI as code, reduce manual work and accelerate safe, repeatable changes
- Rely on ongoing NIOS innovation to strengthen security, resilience and compliance on the platform you trust
Whether you are just starting to implement enterprise-grade DDI or have been an Infoblox customer for years, the outcomes are the same: NIOS helps you move faster, with less risk, while continuing to deliver more capabilities and value over the life of your investment.
Footnotes
- NOTE: DoT/DoH encryption is included at no additional charge only when running NIOS on Trinzic X6 appliances. Organizations using Trinzic X5 will still need to purchase an additional license. dnstap logging and the NIOS outbound event API are included at no additional charge for organizations using both X5 and X6 appliances.
