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Authoritative Server 3.3 released!
Downloads: Official download page native RHEL5/6 packages from Kees Monshouwer This a stability, bugfix and conformity update to 3.2. It improves interoperability with various validators, either through bugfixes ...
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
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...
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...
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...
Adding new DNS record types to PowerDNS software
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...
On binding datagram (UDP) sockets to the ANY addresses
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...
A few quick notes on making an application FULLY IPv6 compliant
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...
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 ...