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PowerDNS Authoritative Server Security Notification 2012-01

PowerDNS Authoritative Server Security Notification 2012-01

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...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.0 has been released!

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.0 has been released!

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...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.0RC1 released! Now with DNSSEC!

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.0RC1 released! Now with DNSSEC!

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 ...

PowerDNSSEC: packages available, ready for light production use

PowerDNSSEC: packages available, ready for light production use

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...

PowerDNSSEC Available For Testing!

PowerDNSSEC Available For Testing!

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...

When DNS is cool and when it is not

When DNS is cool and when it is not

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...

PowerDNS is The Hackers Choice!

PowerDNS is The Hackers Choice!

Very brief note to let you know that I’m thrilled that PowerDNS will be serving the HAR 2009 visitors! It has previously also been used by the same people at CCC congresses. I’m very proud of this, and I hope the...

Some quick notes on RSA1024 signing performance

Some quick notes on RSA1024 signing performance

Just so this does not get lost – I’ve been doing some RSA1024 signing experiments because of my ‘DNSSEC on PowerDNS’ experiment, and the results were at first confusing. For starters, friends of mine with Apple O...