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Peter van Dijk on Sep 30, 2014

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 ...

Peter van Dijk on Sep 23, 2014

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 ...

Bert Hubert on Sep 10, 2014

Hi everybody, We regret that we have to announce a PowerDNS Recursor security release: Issue: A specific sequence of packets can crash PowerDNS Recursor 3.6.0 remotely CVE: CVE-2014-3614 Affected: All deployments...

Bert Hubert on Aug 15, 2014

Hi everybody, Over the past few months, we’d been receiving some reports of people having problems posting to our lists. At first, it appeared the problem was caused by subscribers emailing to the wrong list addr...

Peter van Dijk on Aug 01, 2014

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 ...

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...