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PowerDNS development plans: 4.x DNSSEC, C++ 2011!

PowerDNS development plans: 4.x DNSSEC, C++ 2011!

In this post, we’d like to share our current plans for .. PowerDNS 4.x! We shared this first with the PowerDNS-development community, and after we gathered feedback, we’re now announcing it more broadly. The tl;d...

New PowerDNS employee, the importance of testing RCs, skipping 3.7.0, World Hosting Days 2015

New PowerDNS employee, the importance of testing RCs, skipping 3.7.0, World...

Hi everybody, Some assorted remarks & PowerDNS news: 1) New employee 2) Please test our release candidates 3) 3.7.0 has been skipped, all hail 3.7.1 4) World Hosting days in Germany New employee To start with...

PowerDNS Recursor 3.7.1 Released

PowerDNS Recursor 3.7.1 Released

Released February 12th, 2015. Download page. This version contains a mix of speedups and improvements, the combined effect of which is vastly improved resilience against traffic spikes and malicious query overloa...

Authoritative Server 3.4.2 Released

Authoritative Server 3.4.2 Released

Warning: Version 3.4.2 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...

An introduction to PowerDNS Recursor 3.7.0

An introduction to PowerDNS Recursor 3.7.0

Today we released the first Release Candidate (RC) of PowerDNS Recursor 3.7.0. And although we do document (almost) all of our features, documentation is not the same as effectively informing our users of what ou...

Diverting recursor-to-auth attacks

Diverting recursor-to-auth attacks

We get frequent reports from users/customers about various DNS-related attacks they are facing on either their authoritatives or recursors. This post focuses on one kind of attack that involves both. The attack w...

PowerDNS “Graphing as a Service”

PowerDNS “Graphing as a Service”

Over the past few months,we’ve worked on our graphing tool, which has proved to be a wonderful aid in debugging. If you want to get the best help from us in diagnosing your problems, read on. PowerDNS Authoritati...

PowerDNS Security Advisory 2014-02

PowerDNS Security Advisory 2014-02

PowerDNS Security Advisory 2014-02: PowerDNS Recursor 3.6.1 and earlier can be made to provide bad service Hi everybody, Please be aware of PowerDNS Security Advisory 2014-02, which you can also find below. The g...

Authoritative Server 3.4.1

Authoritative Server 3.4.1

Warning Version 3.4.1. 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...

Recursor 3.6.2

Recursor 3.6.2

Note Version 3.6.2 is a bugfix update to 3.6.1. Released on the 30th of October 2014. Official download page A list of changes since 3.6.1 follows. commit ab14b4f: expedite servfail generation for ezdns-like fail...