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Bert Hubert on Aug 28, 2012

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...

Bert Hubert on May 21, 2012

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...

Bert Hubert on Mar 04, 2012

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 ...

Bert Hubert on Feb 07, 2012

Some time ago, Dan Kaminsky mentioned the Secure Remote Password protocol (SRP) on Twitter. As I find certificates to be cumbersome, I’m always interested in solutions to setup trusted communications without them...

Bert Hubert on Jan 10, 2012

CVE CVE-2012-0206 Date 10th of January 2012 Credit Ray Morris of BetterCGI.com. Affects Most PowerDNS Authoritative Server versions < 3.0.1 (with the exception of the just released 2.9.22.5) Not affected No ve...

Bert Hubert on Jul 22, 2011

Available from: * http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/pdns-3.0.tar.gz * http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/rpm/pdns-static-3.0-1.x86_64.rpm * http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/deb/pdns-static_3.0-1_am...

Bert Hubert on Apr 05, 2011

I’m very proud to announce the first Release Candidate for PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.0, now with full support for DNSSEC, TSIG, IPv6 master/slave, per-zone metadata and Lua zone editing. The DNSSEC support ...

Bert Hubert on Jan 11, 2011

Dear PowerDNS Community, With the help of many of you, we’ve now brought ‘PowerDNSSEC’ to the point where it is in light production. Several of our important domains have already been migrated to the PowerDNS Aut...

Bert Hubert on Apr 22, 2010

Dear PowerDNS people, On http://wiki.powerdns.com/trac/wiki/PDNSSEC you will find the newest version of PowerDNS with DNSSEC support built in. This version is tentatively called ‘PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.0...

Bert Hubert on Nov 11, 2009

Whenever massive query rates are desired for globally distributed data, with high redundancy and built in positive and negative caching, people think of DNS. Popular examples are of course our day to day use of t...