Peter van Dijk

Peter van Dijk
Senior Developer at PowerDNS

Authoritative Server 3.4.3 released

Peter van Dijk on Mar 02, 2015

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...

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From NOERROR to REFUSED

Peter van Dijk on Mar 02, 2015

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 ...

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PowerDNS Recursor 3.7.1 Released

Peter van Dijk on Feb 12, 2015

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...

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Authoritative Server 3.4.2 Released

Peter van Dijk on Feb 03, 2015

Warning: Version 3.4.2 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...

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Diverting recursor-to-auth attacks

Peter van Dijk on Dec 12, 2014

We get frequent reports from users/customers about various DNS-related attacks they are facing on either their authoritatives or recursors. This post focuses on one kind of attack that involves both. The attack w...

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Authoritative Server 3.4.1

Peter van Dijk on Oct 30, 2014

Warning Version 3.4.1. 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...

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Recursor 3.6.2

Peter van Dijk on Oct 30, 2014

Note Version 3.6.2 is a bugfix update to 3.6.1. Released on the 30th of October 2014. Official download page A list of changes since 3.6.1 follows. commit ab14b4f: expedite servfail generation for ezdns-like fail...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.4.0 released

Peter van Dijk on Sep 30, 2014

Warning Version 3.4.0 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 ...

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Authoritative Server 3.4.0 Release Candidate 2

Peter van Dijk on Sep 23, 2014

Warning Version 3.4.0 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 ...

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Authoritative Server 3.4.0 Release Candidate 1

Peter van Dijk on Aug 01, 2014

Warning Version 3.4.0 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 ...

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