Welcome to the PowerDNS Blog

Pieter Lexis on Dec 24, 2015

Hi everybody! As recently announced, we have finished the great PowerDNS 4.x Spring Cleaning. And it was indeed kind of grand. We consciously set out to fix many things that had been waiting for years to be addre...

Bert Hubert on Nov 28, 2015

Hi everybody, In this post we’d like to update you on what has been achieved in the development of the PowerDNS 4.x products: Authoritative, Recursor and dnsdist. First, I am very proud that we managed to do a “s...

Pieter Lexis on Nov 09, 2015

CVE: CVE-2015-5311 Date: November 9th 2015 Credit: Christian Hofstaedtler of Deduktiva GmbH Affects: PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.4.4 through 3.4.6 Not affected: PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.3.x and 3.4.7 a...

Pieter Lexis on Nov 03, 2015

We’re pleased announce the release of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server version 3.4.7. This release fixes several bugs and has a bunch of improvements onboard. The biggest fixes are improved negative caching and ...

Pieter Lexis on Sep 02, 2015

A bug was recently found in our DNS packet parsing/generation code, which, when exploited, can cause individual threads (disabling service) or whole processes (allowing a supervisor to restart them) to crash with...

Pieter Lexis on Aug 28, 2015

We’re pleased to announce the release of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server version 3.4.6. This release fixes some bugs and has several improvements. Tarballs and packages are available on: * https://downloads.pow...

Bert Hubert on Aug 18, 2015

The recently exposed denial-of-service vulnerability in a popular DNS server implementation really highlights the benefits of software providers writing and owning the software that they deliver to internet servi...

Bert Hubert on Jul 15, 2015

Hi everybody! Since we are now happily part of Open-Xchange, together with our friends at Dovecot IMAPd, we will also be present at the Open-Xchange summit in Berlin, October 8-9 this year. This is a free event, ...

Bert Hubert on Jun 23, 2015

PowerDNS is a dynamic nameserver, with a ton of backends. If the supplied backends aren’t flexible enough, our architecture enables operators to write their own, or to use one of our forwarding backends (Pipe and...

Peter van Dijk on Jun 09, 2015

We’re pleased to announce the availibility of a number of PowerDNS releases. These releases share a performance update that prevents short bursts of high resource usage with malformed qnames. The full changelogs ...