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PowerDNS at Open-Xchange Summit in Berlin, 8-9 October 2015

PowerDNS at Open-Xchange Summit in Berlin, 8-9 October 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, ...

What is a PowerDNS Backend? And how do I make it send an NXDOMAIN?

What is a PowerDNS Backend? And how do I make it send an NXDOMAIN?

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...

Authoritative Server 3.4.5, 3.3.3 and Recursor 3.7.3, 3.6.4 released

Authoritative Server 3.4.5, 3.3.3 and Recursor 3.7.3, 3.6.4 released

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 ...

PowerDNS needs your help: What are we missing?

PowerDNS needs your help: What are we missing?

Hi everybody, As we’re working on PowerDNS 4.x, we are wondering: what are we missing? The somewhat longer story is that as a software developer, a sort of feature-blindness creeps up on you. We try to make the s...

PowerDNS 2.x End of Life Statement

PowerDNS 2.x End of Life Statement

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 2.9.22 was released more than 6 years ago, in January 2009. Because of its immense and durable popularity, some patch releases have been provided, the last one of which (2.9.22.6) wa...

DNS: Your customer’s gateway to the Internet

DNS: Your customer’s gateway to the Internet

PowerDNS and Dovecot joined the Open-Xchange family at WorldWostingDay 2015 in Rust

DNS-OARC Spring Workshop 2015

DNS-OARC Spring Workshop 2015

This weekend, PowerDNS attended the DNS-OARC Spring Workshop 2015 in force, with 100% attendance. I shamefully have to admit this is the first time I’ve gone to an OARC workshop, but I was well rewarded. Both the...

Important Update for Security Advisory 2015-01

Important Update for Security Advisory 2015-01

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...

Recursor 3.7.2

Recursor 3.7.2

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. Tar.gz and packages are available on: * https://downloads.powerdns.com/rel...

Authoritative Server 3.4.4

Authoritative Server 3.4.4

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...