Peter van Dijk

Peter van Dijk
Senior Developer at PowerDNS

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.5 and Recursor 4.0.7 Released

Peter van Dijk on Nov 27, 2017

Today we announce the release of both the PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.5 and Recursor 4.0.7 which contain a lot of backports from the 4.1.x branch. These releases also drop support for Botan 1.10 in favor of...

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FOSDEM 2018 DNS devroom CfP!

Peter van Dijk on Nov 20, 2017

Hello DNS-enthusiasts and other developers, After two successful BoF sessions at FOSDEM 2016 and 2017, FOSDEM 2018 will see a real DNS devroom! We hope to host talks anywhere from hardcore protocol stuff, to prac...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.0 Release Candidate 3 Available

Peter van Dijk on Nov 17, 2017

We present what should be our last release candidate for PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.0: Release Candidate 3! If no major issues are found we expect to release the final version within the next two weeks. Th...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.0 Release Candidate 2 Available

Peter van Dijk on Nov 03, 2017

Now that the Release Candidate 1 has simmered for a while, we present PowerDNS Authoritative Server Release Candidate 2! Thanks to everyone who tested RC1. This release has several performance improvements, stabi...

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DNS performance metrics: the logarithmic percentile histogram

Peter van Dijk on Nov 02, 2017

DNS performance is always a hot topic. No DNS-OARC, RIPE or IETF conference is complete without new presentations on DNS performance measurements. Most of these benchmarks focus on denial-of-service resistance: w...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.0 Release Candidate 1 Released

Peter van Dijk on Aug 31, 2017

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.0 RC1 is here! This release marks The Return of the LDAP Backend. Also recursion has been removed from the authoritative server (see #4752 below) and a CryptoKey API endpoint is ...

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PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.6 released!

Peter van Dijk on Jul 06, 2017

This release features a fix for the ed25519 verifier. This verifier hashed the message before verifying, resulting in unverifiable signatures. Also on the Elliptic Curve front, support was added for ED448 (DNSSEC...

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PowerDNS Authoritative 4.0.4 Release Candidate 1 released!

Peter van Dijk on Jun 13, 2017

Because 4.0.3 is 5 months ago, and a lot has happened since (see the long changelog below), we are doing a release candidate for release 4.0.4. The full changelog looks like this: Bug fixes #5346: configure.ac: c...

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Authoritative Server 3.4.10

Peter van Dijk on Sep 02, 2016

Hi everybody, We’re pleased to announce version 3.4.10 of our Authoritative Server. This release fixes several bugs, decreases CPU usage and allows better interoperability with PowerDNS 4.0.X databases. It also a...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.0 released!

Peter van Dijk on Jul 11, 2016

We are proud and happy to announce the release of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server version 4.0.0. This release has a great number of new features and improvements compared to PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.4. M...

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