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Bert Hubert on May 07, 2013

Each and every PowerDNS change is tested by our Jenkins continuous integration setup, as hosted on https://autotest.powerdns.com. The more tests we have, the more valuable this setup becomes, and in this post you...

Peter van Dijk on May 03, 2013

We’re happy to announce our first release from GitHub instead of SVN! This is a stability and bugfix update to 3.5. It contains important fixes that improve operation for certain domains. Changes since 3.5: We no...

Bert Hubert on May 02, 2013

Hi everybody, After a serious amount of work, we’ve completed the move to GitHub. We have successfully migrated all tickets, branches, tags, commits, attachments and patches from our old Subversion and Trac serve...

Bert Hubert on May 01, 2013

Welcome to the new dedicated PowerDNS blog! Previously we had various personal blogs that mentioned PowerDNS a lot, but not everything is under one roof. Most relevant posts have been copied to this site already....

Bert Hubert on Jan 20, 2013

From a letter, where you should know that ‘Mok’ is Dutch for ‘Mug’: Dear PomerDNS management, Recently me ordered, via a mebform or your mebsite, a so called PomerDNS Mok. but something ment terribly mrong since ...

Bert Hubert on Dec 10, 2012

Hi everybody,

Bert Hubert on Nov 30, 2012

Our friends from NLNetLabs recently described how to add new record types to NSD, which I think is a great idea. Especially if this enables the community to add their favorite record types for us! Here are the fu...

Bert Hubert on Oct 17, 2012

So here’s a nice challenge. Let’s say you have a list of member email addresses which you get from your account list. But you also have a list of email addresses that you have of your customers, addresses that yo...

Bert Hubert on Oct 08, 2012

This story goes back a long time. For around 10 years now, people have been requesting that PowerDNS learn how to automatically listen on all available IP addresses. And for slightly less than that time, we’ve be...

Bert Hubert on Aug 28, 2012

Over the past decade, PowerDNS has become ever more IPv6 compliant, and I think that since a year or so, we fixed every last issue. So why did it take so long? Just creating an AF_INET6 socket and binding it shou...