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PowerDNS needs your help: What are we missing?
Hi everybody, As we’re working on PowerDNS 4.x, we are wondering: what are we missing? The somewhat longer story is that as a software developer, a sort of feature-blindness creeps up on you. We try to make the s...
PowerDNS 2.x End of Life Statement
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 2.9.22 was released more than 6 years ago, in January 2009. Because of its immense and durable popularity, some patch releases have been provided, the last one of which (2.9.22.6) wa...
Important Update for Security Advisory 2015-01
Last week, we released Security Advisory 2015-01, with text suggesting that only specific platforms were seriously affected. We must now report that this was incorrect: all platforms are impacted. The advisory ha...
Recursor 3.7.2
Hi everybody, We’re pleased to announce version 3.7.2 of our Recursor. The most important part of this update is a fix for CVE-2015-1868. Please see http://doc.powerdns.com/md/security/powerdns-advisory-2015-01/ ...
Authoritative Server 3.4.4
Hi everybody, We’re pleased to announce version 3.4.4 of our Authoritative Server. The most important part of this update is a fix for CVE-2015-1868. Please see http://doc.powerdns.com/md/security/powerdns-adviso...
Security Advisory 2015-01
UPDATE: please also read the update posted on May 1st. Hi everybody, Please be aware of PowerDNS Security Advisory 2015-01 (http://doc.powerdns.com/md/security/powerdns-advisory-2015-01/). The good news is that a...
Recursor 3.6.3
Hi everybody, We’re pleased to announce version 3.6.3 of our Recursor. The most important part of this update is a fix for CVE-2015-1868. Please see http://doc.powerdns.com/md/security/powerdns-advisory-2015-01/ ...
Authoritative Server 3.4.3 released
Warning: Version 3.4.3 of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server is a major upgrade if you are coming from 2.9.x. Additionally, if you are coming from any 3.x version (including 3.3.1), there is a mandatory SQL schema...
From NOERROR to REFUSED
Back in 2011, in the work leading up to the biggest release of the Authoritative Server so far (3.0, with DNSSEC), in an attempt to bring the rcode for a ‘dangling CNAME’ in line with BIND, by accident the rcode ...
PowerDNS Recursor 3.7.1 Released
Released February 12th, 2015. Download page. This version contains a mix of speedups and improvements, the combined effect of which is vastly improved resilience against traffic spikes and malicious query overloa...