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PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 Alpha 3 released

PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 Alpha 3 released

We are pleased to announce the release of the PowerDNS recursor 4.0.0 Alpha 3. This release features a great number of DNSSEC correctness fixes. Changes from 4.0.0 Alpha 2 are: #3752 Correct handling of query fla...

dnsdist 1.0.0 released!

dnsdist 1.0.0 released!

We are pleased to announce the release of the 1.0.0 version of dnsdist. dnsdist is a highly DNS-, DoS- and abuse-aware loadbalancer. Its goal in life is to route traffic to the best server, delivering top perform...

dnsdist 1.0.0 Beta 1 released

dnsdist 1.0.0 Beta 1 released

We are pleased to announce the release of the first beta version of dnsdist, 1.0.0-beta1. We intend to release the final 1.0.0 version on April 21st, just in time for the UKNOF34 meeting. In addition to several b...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 Alpha 2 released

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...