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PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 Alpha 2 released
We’re happy to announce the release of the PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 Alpha 2. This release features many low-level performance fixes and restores forward-zones functionality. Changes from 4.0.0-alpha1 are: #3259, #...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.0-alpha2 released
We’re pleased to announce the second alpha release of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server version 4.0.0. This release is the first release to use OpenSSL for nearly all crypto-primitives (GOST is still provided by ...
An important update on new PowerDNS Products
Hi everybody, This is a heads-up on some announcements you will be seeing on powerdns.com relating to new PowerDNS products which (gasp) are not fully Open Source. We know this is a sensitive subject, so before w...
PowerDNS & CVE-2015-7547: possible mitigation
Since yesterday we have been following and studying CVE-2015-7547. More about which here. In short, this is a vulnerability not in PowerDNS products but in the Linux C library. This vulnerability could be exploit...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.4.8
Hi everybody, We’re pleased to announce version 3.4.8 of our Authoritative Server. This is a small bugfix release to 3.4.7. Additionally, the deb/RPM packages on downloads.powerdns.com (those with -static in the ...
PowerDNS Authoritative: the new old way to manage domains
This is the third post in a series that highlights interesting new features of the PowerDNS 4.x.x and dnsdist 1.x.x releases. I (Bert) have to admit something. Even though I set out to write a database driven nam...
Per device DNS settings: selective parental control
This is the second post in a series that highlights interesting new features of the PowerDNS 4.x.x and dnsdist 1.x.x releases. As noted previously, in some organizations it is desirable to filter access to some d...
Efficient & optional filtering of domains in Recursor 4.0.0
As we gear up for the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0, we are doing a series of posts describing new cool features which you can try out today. Many deployments are already running with 4.x alphas or snapshots...
Open Source Support: out in the open
As an Open Source project, PowerDNS works hard to support its users and customers. We also love to work with our collaborators, our community, on projects inside and outside of PowerDNS. This way we’ve contribute...
2015 in numbers
While the close of 2015 nears, we want to share some geeky stats over the past year. Let’s start with the company: number of new employees: 2. And the number of companies PowerDNS merged with: 1! As for the softw...