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PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.11 Released
Since Spectre / Meltdown, system calls have become more expensive. In addition, relevant versions of glibc turn out to implement pthread_cond_wait and pthread_cond_signal in such a way that they use multiple syst...
Changes in the PowerDNS Recursor 4.2.0
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...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.6 Released
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...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.10 Released
This release is only relevant when building PowerDNS Recursor from source with protobuf support disabled. Release 4.1.10 fixes a bug where the recursor would not build when one had protobuf support disabled. The ...
Domain security outside of DNS: Getting hacked administratively
This is a brief blogpost on the news that has been sent to us by many people, namely that there is a suspected Iranian group that is “hijacking DNS”. I was about to be interviewed on this subject but sadly that f...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.9 Released
We are very happy to announce the 4.1.9 release of the PowerDNS Recursor. This release is fixing two security issues, and addressing a shortcoming in the way incoming queries are distributed to threads under heav...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0-alpha1: Lua records, ixfrdist, swagger
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 ...
Enabling continuous fuzzing of PowerDNS products
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...
Important Changes in PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0
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...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.8 Released
We’ve released PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.8. This release fixes Security Advisory 2018-09 that we recently discovered, affecting PowerDNS Recursor from 4.1.0 up to and including 4.1.7. PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.x and belo...