Peter van Dijk

Peter van Dijk
Senior Developer at PowerDNS

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0 Release Candidate 1 Released

Peter van Dijk on Mar 19, 2019

This release fixes an issue with security implications that has been recently reported in the HTTP remote backend of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server. Setups that are not using this backend are not impacted by t...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.7 and 4.1.7 Released

Peter van Dijk on Mar 18, 2019

These two releases fix an issue with security implications that has been recently reported in the HTTP remote backend of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server. Setups that are not using this backend are not impacted ...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0 Beta 1 Released

Peter van Dijk on Feb 28, 2019

It has been too long a time since the release of PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0-alpha1. The Beta 1 release comes with a lot of bug fixes, improvements and also some new features: LMDB backend, Fixes for Open...

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Changes in the PowerDNS Recursor 4.2.0

Peter van Dijk on Feb 01, 2019

The 4.2.0 release of the PowerDNS Recursor brings a lot of small, incremental changes over the 4.1.x releases. We expect little operational impact when upgrading from 4.1.x. However, several new features have bee...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.6 Released

Peter van Dijk on Jan 31, 2019

This release fixes a single issue: the PowerDNS API would accept more than one CNAME record for the same name attribute and would return 204 instead of refusing and returning a 4xx error. The changelog: #7279: Pr...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0-alpha1: Lua records, ixfrdist, swagger

Peter van Dijk on Dec 14, 2018

We’re proud to release the first alpha version of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2 series. While some users have already deployed this version straight from our package builders or master repositories, this ...

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Enabling continuous fuzzing of PowerDNS products

Peter van Dijk on Dec 12, 2018

We are very happy to announce that PowerDNS recently joined the OSS-Fuzz initiative, enabling continuous fuzzing for critical parts of our products. We are taking this opportunity to share some of our existing se...

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Important Changes in PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0

Peter van Dijk on Dec 07, 2018

Hello PowerDNS user, as the year draws to an end, we are preparing for the release of a new version of the Authoritative Server (and the Recursor – stay tuned for more news in that area). This release (4.2.0) wil...

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FOSDEM 2019 DNS devroom CfP

Peter van Dijk on Oct 14, 2018

Hello DNS enthusiasts and other developers, After a successful and packed half-day DNS devroom at FOSDEM 2018, we are happy to announce a full-day DNS devroom at FOSDEM 2019. As with last year, we hope to host ta...

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PowerDNS and the ICANN KSK roll

Peter van Dijk on Oct 08, 2018

The root KSK rollover is currently planned for 1600 UTC on the 11th of October 2018 – a few days from now. If you are using PowerDNS Recursor for DNSSEC validation, please keep reading! During the KSK rollover, t...

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