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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.4.6 released
We’re pleased to announce the release of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server version 3.4.6. This release fixes some bugs and has several improvements. Tarballs and packages are available on: * https://downloads.pow...
What is a PowerDNS Backend? And how do I make it send an NXDOMAIN?
PowerDNS is a dynamic nameserver, with a ton of backends. If the supplied backends aren’t flexible enough, our architecture enables operators to write their own, or to use one of our forwarding backends (Pipe and...
Authoritative Server 3.4.5, 3.3.3 and Recursor 3.7.3, 3.6.4 released
We’re pleased to announce the availibility of a number of PowerDNS releases. These releases share a performance update that prevents short bursts of high resource usage with malformed qnames. The full changelogs ...
PowerDNS needs your help: What are we missing?
Hi everybody, As we’re working on PowerDNS 4.x, we are wondering: what are we missing? The somewhat longer story is that as a software developer, a sort of feature-blindness creeps up on you. We try to make the s...
PowerDNS 2.x End of Life Statement
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 2.9.22 was released more than 6 years ago, in January 2009. Because of its immense and durable popularity, some patch releases have been provided, the last one of which (2.9.22.6) wa...
DNS: Your customer’s gateway to the Internet
PowerDNS and Dovecot joined the Open-Xchange family at WorldWostingDay 2015 in Rust
Authoritative Server 3.4.4
Hi everybody, We’re pleased to announce version 3.4.4 of our Authoritative Server. The most important part of this update is a fix for CVE-2015-1868. Please see http://doc.powerdns.com/md/security/powerdns-adviso...
Authoritative Server 3.4.3 released
Warning: Version 3.4.3 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...
From NOERROR to REFUSED
Back in 2011, in the work leading up to the biggest release of the Authoritative Server so far (3.0, with DNSSEC), in an attempt to bring the rcode for a ‘dangling CNAME’ in line with BIND, by accident the rcode ...
PowerDNS development plans: 4.x DNSSEC, C++ 2011!
In this post, we’d like to share our current plans for .. PowerDNS 4.x! We shared this first with the PowerDNS-development community, and after we gathered feedback, we’re now announcing it more broadly. The tl;d...