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Peter van Dijk on Jun 20, 2014

Note Downloads: Official download page native RHEL5/6 packages from Kees Monshouwer This is a performance, feature and bugfix update to 3.5/3.5.3. It contains important fixes for slightly broken domain names, whi...

Bert Hubert on Jun 19, 2014

Hi everybody, In short: there is a market for (small) PowerDNS jobs, and if you are available for such work, read on for where we’ll be sending people who need PowerDNS work done! The longer story: As PowerDNS us...

Peter van Dijk on May 30, 2014

RC1 released May 30th, 2014 Downloads: pdns-recursor-3.6.0-rc1.tar.bz2 semistatic packages native RHEL5/6 packages from Kees Monshouwer This is a performance, feature and bugfix update to 3.5/3.5.3. It contains i...

Bert Hubert on May 21, 2014

Yesterday, we were contacted by PowerDNS user James Baer who noted strange crashes in PowerDNS (on Linux) upon adding thousands and thousands of IP addresses to his system. Notably, PowerDNS did not even use any ...

Bert Hubert on May 05, 2014

The very short version: if you contact an open source project anonymously, you may not get the best help. Feel free to also reach out privately and share that your post from gmail.com is actually (say) from a ver...

Bert Hubert on Apr 13, 2014

Hi everybody, This post serves to clarify why we (‘PowerDNS.COM’) can’t help you with issues with Express PowerDNS.NET hosting by Trilab. The short version is: they are a fully different company, and we have no a...

Peter van Dijk on Apr 10, 2014

A heads-up for everybody running (git) snapshots of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server: earlier today we merged Pull #1327 from Kees Monshouwer. This merge deprecates the ‘old’ (pre-DNSSEC) schema for the gsql bac...

Peter van Dijk on Apr 03, 2014

Hi everybody, Sadly, further DoS attacks are plaguing the world of DNS, which is bad for the targets of those DoS attacks, but also for us DNS operators that help originate them. This post has guidance on how to ...

Bert Hubert on Feb 06, 2014

Hi everybody, Over the past week we’ve been contacted by a few users reporting their PowerDNS Recursor became unresponsive under a moderate denial of service attack, one which PowerDNS should be expected to weath...

Peter van Dijk on Dec 17, 2013

Warning Version 3.3.1 of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server is a major upgrade if you are coming from 2.9.x. There are also some important changes if you are coming from 3.0, 3.1 or 3.2. Please refer to Section 1,...