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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.8 Released
This release contains a bunch of backports, improvements and bug fixes that we wanted in the 4.1.x release channel after the 4.1.7 security release was out of the door. Please see the changelog for full details: ...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0 Release Candidate 1 Released
This release fixes an issue with security implications that has been recently reported in the HTTP remote backend of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server. Setups that are not using this backend are not impacted by t...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.7 and 4.1.7 Released
These two releases fix an issue with security implications that has been recently reported in the HTTP remote backend of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server. Setups that are not using this backend are not impacted ...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0 Beta 1 Released
It has been too long a time since the release of PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0-alpha1. The Beta 1 release comes with a lot of bug fixes, improvements and also some new features: LMDB backend, Fixes for Open...
The big DNS Privacy Debate at FOSDEM
This weekend at the excellent FOSDEM gathering there were no less than three presentations on DNS over HTTPs. Daniel Stenberg presented a keynote session “DNS over HTTPS – the good, the bad and the ugly” (video),...
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...