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Four million pings only – aka 1 dimensional DNS radar

Four million pings only – aka 1 dimensional DNS radar

Quick post as I have no time to work on this for now. Ages ago I read a book, I think by Arthur C. Clarke, where powerful atomic bombs were used to generate radar pulses so powerful, the return signal was used to...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server Security Notification 2012-01

PowerDNS Authoritative Server Security Notification 2012-01

CVE CVE-2012-0206 Date 10th of January 2012 Credit Ray Morris of BetterCGI.com. Affects Most PowerDNS Authoritative Server versions < 3.0.1 (with the exception of the just released 2.9.22.5) Not affected No ve...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.0 has been released!

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.0 has been released!

Available from: * http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/pdns-3.0.tar.gz * http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/rpm/pdns-static-3.0-1.x86_64.rpm * http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/deb/pdns-static_3.0-1_am...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.0RC1 released! Now with DNSSEC!

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.0RC1 released! Now with DNSSEC!

I’m very proud to announce the first Release Candidate for PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.0, now with full support for DNSSEC, TSIG, IPv6 master/slave, per-zone metadata and Lua zone editing. The DNSSEC support ...

PowerDNSSEC: packages available, ready for light production use

PowerDNSSEC: packages available, ready for light production use

Dear PowerDNS Community, With the help of many of you, we’ve now brought ‘PowerDNSSEC’ to the point where it is in light production. Several of our important domains have already been migrated to the PowerDNS Aut...

PowerDNS Recursor additional Lua hooks for IPv6 DNS64 and Renumbering

PowerDNS Recursor additional Lua hooks for IPv6 DNS64 and Renumbering

Dear PowerDNS Community, The PowerDNS Recursor is currently being extended with additional Lua hooks and extra infrastructure to support flexible DNS64 operations, plus perform on-the-fly IPv4 or IPv6 renumbering...

PowerDNS Recursor 3.3 released!

PowerDNS Recursor 3.3 released!

Hi everybody, We’re proud to announce the release of the PowerDNS Recursor 3.3! It can be downloaded from http://www.powerdns.com/ Version 3.3 fixes a number of small but persistent issues, rounds off our IPv6 %l...

Some notes on Solaris 10 x86, 64 bit compilation, bugs and memory allocators

Some notes on Solaris 10 x86, 64 bit compilation, bugs and memory allocator...

Over the past few months, I’ve spent a lot of time getting the PowerDNS Recursor to perform well on Solaris 10 on x86. Initially, I thought this could not be a lot of work since there are many happy Recursor user...

Better statistical regression tests: Release your inner German!

Better statistical regression tests: Release your inner German!

Hi everybody, The PowerDNS Recursor 3.2 release is holding up well for almost all users, but still some slight issues have crept up. One of the issues involved, where we needed to work around an artefact/issue/qu...

PowerDNSSEC Available For Testing!

PowerDNSSEC Available For Testing!

Dear PowerDNS people, On http://wiki.powerdns.com/trac/wiki/PDNSSEC you will find the newest version of PowerDNS with DNSSEC support built in. This version is tentatively called ‘PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.0...