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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
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
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”
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 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
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
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...
PowerDNS Security Status Polling
PowerDNS software sadly sometimes has critical security bugs. Even though we send out notifications of these via all channels available, our recent security releases have taught us that not everybody actually fin...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.4.0 released
Warning Version 3.4.0 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 ...
Authoritative Server 3.4.0 Release Candidate 2
Warning Version 3.4.0 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 ...