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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.4.2
Hello! We are proud to announce version 4.4.2 of the Authoritative Server. This releases fixes one issue: RFC2136/nsupdate: apply new TTL to whole RRset, not only to the added record Please find a full list in th...
Second beta release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0
We are proud to announce the second beta release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0. Compared to the previous major (4.5) release of PowerDNS Recursor, this release contains several sets of changes: The ability to flush ...
First beta release of dnsdist 1.7.0
Hello! We are happy to announce the first beta release of dnsdist 1.7.0! We introduced a fair number of improvements and new features since the second alpha, and we will now iron out the documentation and fix any...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.2
Hello! Today we published release 4.5.2 of the Authoritative Server. It contains several robustness fixes for the bindbackend, and for SOA handling. These fixes are especially important for zone cache users. Plea...
First beta release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0
We are proud to announce the first beta release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0. Compared to the previous major (4.5) release of PowerDNS Recursor, this release contains several sets of changes: A rewrite of the outgo...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.7 and 4.5.7 Released
We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.7. and 4.5.7. Both releases are maintenance releases correcting an issue where a DS record with a SHA-256 digest could be ignored if a DS record with ...
Second alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0
We are proud to announce the second alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.0. Compared to the previous major (4.5) release of PowerDNS Recursor, this release contains several sets of changes: A rewrite of the out...
Second alpha release of dnsdist 1.7.0
Hello! We are happy to announce the second alpha release of dnsdist 1.7.0! We spent quite some time since alpha1 reproducing an issue reported by Stéphane Bortzmeyer in our new outgoing DNS over TLS feature. The ...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.6 Released
We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.6. This release contains fixes to the way RPZ updates are handled and a fix to a case where traffic to a forwarder could be throttled while it should ...
Managing the Facebook outage with DNSdist
Earlier this week, the world was thrown into turmoil by a six-hour outage of Facebook and its associated platforms, WhatsApp and Instagram.