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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...

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...

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...

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...