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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 ...
Security Update: PowerDNS Recursor 3.6.1
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...
Problems posting to our mailing lists
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...
Authoritative Server 3.4.0 Release Candidate 1
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 ...
Recursor 3.6.0 released
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...
Recursor 3.6.0 Release Candidate 1
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...
A surprising discovery on converting IPv6 addresses: we no longer prefer ge...
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 ...
How to talk to an open source software project as a large scale or otherwis...
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...