Welcome to the PowerDNS Blog

Peter van Dijk on May 01, 2015

Last week, we released Security Advisory 2015-01, with text suggesting that only specific platforms were seriously affected. We must now report that this was incorrect: all platforms are impacted. The advisory ha...

Peter van Dijk on Apr 23, 2015

Hi everybody, We’re pleased to announce version 3.7.2 of our Recursor. The most important part of this update is a fix for CVE-2015-1868. Please see http://doc.powerdns.com/md/security/powerdns-advisory-2015-01/ ...

Peter van Dijk on Apr 23, 2015

Hi everybody, We’re pleased to announce version 3.4.4 of our Authoritative Server. The most important part of this update is a fix for CVE-2015-1868. Please see http://doc.powerdns.com/md/security/powerdns-adviso...

Peter van Dijk on Apr 23, 2015

UPDATE: please also read the update posted on May 1st. Hi everybody, Please be aware of PowerDNS Security Advisory 2015-01 (http://doc.powerdns.com/md/security/powerdns-advisory-2015-01/). The good news is that a...

Peter van Dijk on Apr 23, 2015

Hi everybody, We’re pleased to announce version 3.6.3 of our Recursor. The most important part of this update is a fix for CVE-2015-1868. Please see http://doc.powerdns.com/md/security/powerdns-advisory-2015-01/ ...

Bert Hubert on Mar 24, 2015

(Peter van Dijk, Bert Hubert, Rafael Laguna, Mikko Linnamäki, Markku Kenttä, Timo Sirainen) Hi everybody, We’re currently at World Hosting Days in Rust Germany, where we just announced that PowerDNS will be joini...

Bert Hubert on Mar 17, 2015

Hi everybody, Two announcements in one: First, like 7000 others, we’ll be visiting World Hosting Days in Rust, Germany next week. Peter, Pieter and I will be there, as will be two of our wonderful Certified Consu...

Bert Hubert on Mar 11, 2015

Over the years, PowerDNS users have frequently asked us about our preferred DNS load balancing solution, and we’ve never had a satisfying answer for that. Users of dedicated hardware often tell us that vendors sp...

Peter van Dijk on Mar 02, 2015

Warning: Version 3.4.3 of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server is a major upgrade if you are coming from 2.9.x. Additionally, if you are coming from any 3.x version (including 3.3.1), there is a mandatory SQL schema...

Peter van Dijk on Mar 02, 2015

Back in 2011, in the work leading up to the biggest release of the Authoritative Server so far (3.0, with DNSSEC), in an attempt to bring the rcode for a ‘dangling CNAME’ in line with BIND, by accident the rcode ...