Peter van Dijk

Peter van Dijk
Senior Developer at PowerDNS

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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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.4 released

Peter van Dijk on Aug 29, 2018

We’re happy to announce the release of the PowerDNS Authoritative server version 4.1.4. This maintenance release features several bug fixes. The two most important being a fix in the handling of child-zones with ...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.3 Released

Peter van Dijk on May 24, 2018

We’re pleased to announce the availability of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server version 4.1.3. This is a maintenance release addressing a performance issue in the GeoIP backend and fixes several other issues. The...

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Authoritative server 4.1.2 released

Peter van Dijk on May 08, 2018

This is the third release in the 4.1 train. Besides bug fixes, it contains some performance and usability improvements. Please find the most important changes below. For full details, visit the changelog. Improve...

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Removing EDNS Workarounds

Peter van Dijk on Mar 22, 2018

In a coordinated effort between PowerDNS, ISC, CZ.NIC and NLnetlabs, starting Feb 1 2019, workarounds for severely broken EDNS setups will be removed from our collective body of software. For the PowerDNS Recurso...

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Authoritative server 4.1.1 released

Peter van Dijk on Feb 16, 2018

Released: 16th of Feburary 2018 This is the second release in the 4.1 train. This is a bug-fix only release, with fixes to the LDAP and MySQL backends, the pdnsutil tool, and PDNS internals. Changes since 4.1.1: ...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1

Peter van Dijk on Nov 30, 2017

Version 4.1 is a major upgrade for the Authoritative Server, delivering improvements and speedups developed and tested over the past 12 months. Many large scale deployments have already migrated to this release b...

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