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Authoritative Server 3.4.1

Authoritative Server 3.4.1

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

Recursor 3.6.2

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

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.4.0 released

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

Authoritative Server 3.4.0 Release Candidate 2

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

Authoritative Server 3.4.0 Release Candidate 1

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

Recursor 3.6.0 released

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

Recursor 3.6.0 Release Candidate 1

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

Authoritative Server Database Schema Changes

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

Further DoS guidance, packages and patches available

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

PowerDNS Authoritative Server version 3.3.1

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,...