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Bert Hubert on May 07, 2013

Each and every PowerDNS change is tested by our Jenkins continuous integration setup. The more tests we have, the more valuable this setup becomes, and in this post you can find easy to follow instructions on how...

Bert Hubert on Nov 30, 2012

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...

Bert Hubert on Oct 08, 2012

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...

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 Affects Most PowerDNS Authoritative Server versions < 3.0.1 (with the exception of the just released 2.9.22.5) Not affected No version...

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 ...