Welcome to the PowerDNS Blog
PowerDNS Authoritative: the new old way to manage domains
This is the third post in a series that highlights interesting new features of the PowerDNS 4.x.x and dnsdist 1.x.x releases. I (Bert) have to admit something. Even though I set out to write a database driven nam...
Open Source Support: out in the open
As an Open Source project, PowerDNS works hard to support its users and customers. We also love to work with our collaborators, our community, on projects inside and outside of PowerDNS. This way we’ve contribute...
Technical Preview Releases of Authoritative Server, Recursor and dnsdist
Hi everybody! As recently announced, we have finished the great PowerDNS 4.x Spring Cleaning. And it was indeed kind of grand. We consciously set out to fix many things that had been waiting for years to be addre...
PowerDNS Security Advisory 2015-03
CVE: CVE-2015-5311 Date: November 9th 2015 Credit: Christian Hofstaedtler of Deduktiva GmbH Affects: PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.4.4 through 3.4.6 Not affected: PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.3.x and 3.4.7 a...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.4.7 released
We’re pleased announce the release of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server version 3.4.7. This release fixes several bugs and has a bunch of improvements onboard. The biggest fixes are improved negative caching and ...
PowerDNS Security Advisory 2015-02
A bug was recently found in our DNS packet parsing/generation code, which, when exploited, can cause individual threads (disabling service) or whole processes (allowing a supervisor to restart them) to crash with...
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...