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Security Advisory 2015-01
UPDATE: please also read the update posted on May 1st. Hi everybody, Please be aware of PowerDNS Security Advisory 2015-01. The good news is that as far as we have seen, only specific builds for RHEL5 are affecte...
Recursor 3.6.3
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. Tar.gz and packages are available on: * https://downloads.powerdns.com/rel...
PowerDNS and Open-Xchange agree to merge
(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...
World Hosting Days & Private Graphs as a Service!
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...
Introducing dnsdist: DNS, abuse- and DoS-aware query distribution for optim...
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...
Authoritative Server 3.4.3 released
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...
From NOERROR to REFUSED
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 ...
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...
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
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...