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PowerDNS Recursor 3.2 Release Candidate 1
Hi everybody, Please find below the release notes of the PowerDNS Recursor version 3.2, release candidate 1. RC1 is already deployed in a number of large places, and it appears to be holding up well. In addition,...
Critical PowerDNS Recursor Security Vulnerabilities: please upgrade ASAP to...
Dear PowerDNS Users, Two major vulnerabilities have recently been discovered in the PowerDNS Recursor (all versions up to and including 3.1.7.1). Over the past two weeks, these vulnerabilities have been addressed...
When DNS is cool and when it is not
Whenever massive query rates are desired for globally distributed data, with high redundancy and built in positive and negative caching, people think of DNS. Popular examples are of course our day to day use of t...
xs.powerdns.com: PowerDNS Development & Community Server @ xs4all!
Hi everybody, Over the past few months, the PowerDNS Wiki and Subversion servers had a hard time and were no longer able to keep up with the growing amounts of traffic. Since these servers also routed my personal...
PowerDNS competitor Nominum lauds its closed source credits!
This morning, I was unpleasantly surprised by an advertorial on ZDNET, where PowerDNS competitor Nominum stated that since they are closed source, their technology is inherently more secure. They also cleverly co...
PowerDNS & PowerAdmin contributor Jorn Ekkelenkamp has passed away
I’m almost too hurt to type.. Copy pasted from the PowerDNS mailing lists: Dear PowerDNS friends, I’m deeply saddened to have to report that Jorn Ekkelenkamp passed away yesterday, at the tender age of 26. He die...
PowerDNS is The Hackers Choice!
Very brief note to let you know that I’m thrilled that PowerDNS will be serving the HAR 2009 visitors! It has previously also been used by the same people at CCC congresses. I’m very proud of this, and I hope the...
PowerDNS Recursor 3.1.7.1 released!
I’m pretty proud of this release, or to state it better, proud of not having a real reason to do a release for over a year. Over the past year, the PowerDNS Recursor has gone places I never thought it would go, p...
Some quick notes on RSA1024 signing performance
Just so this does not get lost – I’ve been doing some RSA1024 signing experiments because of my ‘DNSSEC on PowerDNS’ experiment, and the results were at first confusing. For starters, friends of mine with Apple O...