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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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Recursor 3.6.0 released
Peter van Dijk on Jun 20, 2014
Note Downloads: Official download page native RHEL5/6 packages from Kees Monshouwer This is a performance, feature and bugfix update to 3.5/3.5.3. It contains important fixes for slightly broken domain names, whi...
Recursor 3.6.0 Release Candidate 1
Peter van Dijk on May 30, 2014
RC1 released May 30th, 2014 Downloads: pdns-recursor-3.6.0-rc1.tar.bz2 semistatic packages native RHEL5/6 packages from Kees Monshouwer This is a performance, feature and bugfix update to 3.5/3.5.3. It contains i...
Authoritative Server Database Schema Changes
Peter van Dijk on Apr 10, 2014
A heads-up for everybody running (git) snapshots of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server: earlier today we merged Pull #1327 from Kees Monshouwer. This merge deprecates the ‘old’ (pre-DNSSEC) schema for the gsql bac...
Further DoS guidance, packages and patches available
Peter van Dijk on Apr 03, 2014
Hi everybody, Sadly, further DoS attacks are plaguing the world of DNS, which is bad for the targets of those DoS attacks, but also for us DNS operators that help originate them. This post has guidance on how to ...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server version 3.3.1
Peter van Dijk on Dec 17, 2013
Warning Version 3.3.1 of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server is a major upgrade if you are coming from 2.9.x. There are also some important changes if you are coming from 3.0, 3.1 or 3.2. Please refer to Section 1,...