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Authoritative Server 3.3 RC2 available!

Authoritative Server 3.3 RC2 available!

Downloads: source semi-static packages (rpm, deb, i386, amd64) native RHEL5/6 packages from Kees Monshouwer This a stability, bugfix and conformity update to 3.2. It improves interoperability with various validat...

Simple TCP/IP DNS benchmarking tool

Simple TCP/IP DNS benchmarking tool

In our work, we frequently find that we need tools to do specific tests. Today, because of a query from one of our users, we wrote a new tool to cover such a need: TCP DNS benchmarking. It is not very sophisticat...

Automated Coverity security scanning of PowerDNS Projects

Automated Coverity security scanning of PowerDNS Projects

Hi everybody, PowerDNS values the security of the internet, and strives to keep its programs as secure as possible. To further this cause, we’ve run our code through the Coverity Development Testing suite, and as...

Recursor 3.5.2 released

Recursor 3.5.2 released

Released June 7th, 2013 Downloads: Official download page native RHEL5/6 packages from Kees Monshouwer This is a stability and bugfix update to 3.5.1. It contains important fixes that improve operation for certai...

Auth 3.3 RC1 released

Auth 3.3 RC1 released

Downloads: source semi-static packages (rpm, deb, i386, amd64) native RHEL5/6 packages from Kees Monshouwer This a stability, bugfix and conformity update to 3.2. It improves interoperability with various validat...

RIPE 66, PowerDNS and DNS64/NAT64

RIPE 66, PowerDNS and DNS64/NAT64

Last week we visited the RIPE 66 conference in Dublin where Bert Hubert presented on “how to make an application fully IPv6 compliant”. After the presentation, Terry Froy from Spilsby Internet Solutions approache...

Contributing PowerDNS tests: unit tests

Contributing PowerDNS tests: unit tests

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...

Recursor 3.5.1 released

Recursor 3.5.1 released

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...

PowerDNS completes move to GitHub!

PowerDNS completes move to GitHub!

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...

Welcome!

Welcome!

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....