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Random points of contention
I’m working on some high performance code which needs to scale to many, many CPUs. Against better judgement, I decided to use threads again, but to steer clear from anything that needs locking. I’ve previously fo...
Easiest DNSSEC ever when running PowerDNS in BIND mode
Without further comment, except to note that this is really all there is to this. Signatures will autorotate, ‘pdnssec’ allows for complete key management. No cronjobs or further configuration. # apt-get install ...
On SRP – some implementation notes and a critical review
Some time ago, Dan Kaminsky mentioned the Secure Remote Password protocol (SRP) on Twitter. As I find certificates to be cumbersome, I’m always interested in solutions to setup trusted communications without them...
Four million pings only – aka 1 dimensional DNS radar
Quick post as I have no time to work on this for now. Ages ago I read a book, I think by Arthur C. Clarke, where powerful atomic bombs were used to generate radar pulses so powerful, the return signal was used to...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server Security Notification 2012-01
CVE CVE-2012-0206 Date 10th of January 2012 Credit Ray Morris of BetterCGI.com. Affects Most PowerDNS Authoritative Server versions < 3.0.1 (with the exception of the just released 2.9.22.5) Not affected No ve...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.0 has been released!
Available from: * http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/pdns-3.0.tar.gz * http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/rpm/pdns-static-3.0-1.x86_64.rpm * http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/deb/pdns-static_3.0-1_am...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.0RC1 released! Now with DNSSEC!
I’m very proud to announce the first Release Candidate for PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.0, now with full support for DNSSEC, TSIG, IPv6 master/slave, per-zone metadata and Lua zone editing. The DNSSEC support ...
PowerDNSSEC: packages available, ready for light production use
Dear PowerDNS Community, With the help of many of you, we’ve now brought ‘PowerDNSSEC’ to the point where it is in light production. Several of our important domains have already been migrated to the PowerDNS Aut...
PowerDNS Recursor additional Lua hooks for IPv6 DNS64 and Renumbering
Dear PowerDNS Community, The PowerDNS Recursor is currently being extended with additional Lua hooks and extra infrastructure to support flexible DNS64 operations, plus perform on-the-fly IPv4 or IPv6 renumbering...
PowerDNS Recursor 3.3 released!
Hi everybody, We’re proud to announce the release of the PowerDNS Recursor 3.3! It can be downloaded from http://www.powerdns.com/ Version 3.3 fixes a number of small but persistent issues, rounds off our IPv6 %l...