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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.3 Released
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...
Authoritative server 4.1.2 released
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...
Removing EDNS Workarounds
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...
Authoritative server 4.1.1 released
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: ...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1
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...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.5 and Recursor 4.0.7 Released
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...
FOSDEM 2018 DNS devroom CfP!
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...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.0 Release Candidate 3 Available
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...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.0 Release Candidate 2 Available
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...
DNS performance metrics: the logarithmic percentile histogram
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...