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Authoritative Server 3.4.1
Peter van Dijk on Oct 30, 2014
Warning Version 3.4.1. 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...

PowerDNS Security Status Polling
Bert Hubert on Oct 22, 2014
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
Peter van Dijk on Sep 30, 2014
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
Peter van Dijk on Sep 23, 2014
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 1
Peter van Dijk on Aug 01, 2014
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 ...

A surprising discovery on converting IPv6 addresses: we no longer prefer ge...
Bert Hubert on May 21, 2014
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 ...

Authoritative Server Database Schema Changes
Peter van Dijk on Apr 10, 2014
A heads-up for everybody running (git) snapshots of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server: earlier today we merged Pull #1327 from Kees Monshouwer. This merge deprecates the ‘old’ (pre-DNSSEC) schema for the gsql bac...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server version 3.3.1
Peter van Dijk on Dec 17, 2013
Warning Version 3.3.1 of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server is a major upgrade if you are coming from 2.9.x. There are also some important changes if you are coming from 3.0, 3.1 or 3.2. Please refer to Section 1,...

On Ragel and char types
Peter van Dijk on Oct 28, 2013
In which I spend a lot of time proving a platform difference is not actually a platform difference, and eventually end up proven wrong. PowerDNS make check/testrunner output on Debian 7.0/s390x: test-dnsrecords_c...

Authoritative Server 3.3 released!
Peter van Dijk on Jul 05, 2013
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 ...