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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.9 Released

Peter van Dijk on Jun 18, 2019

This maintenance release of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server has the following changes: by popular demand, the option to disable superslave support has been backported from 4.2.0 to 4.1.9 (#7922) pdnsutil b2b-mi...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0 Release Candidate 2

Peter van Dijk on Jun 14, 2019

We are pleased to announce the second Release Candidate for Authoritative Server version 4.2.0. Many of our users have given RC1 a spin, and we very much appreciate their feedback. RC2 contains a host of minor ro...

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How PowerDNS is Open Source & a successful business, or, why are we tal...

Bert Hubert on May 07, 2019

What does PowerDNS actually do? This is a good question, one we can ask about any company. How do they stay alive, what services do they deliver, who do they sell them to? For Open Source companies, the question ...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.8 Released

Peter van Dijk on Mar 22, 2019

This release contains a bunch of backports, improvements and bug fixes that we wanted in the 4.1.x release channel after the 4.1.7 security release was out of the door. Please see the changelog for full details: ...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0 Release Candidate 1 Released

Peter van Dijk on Mar 19, 2019

This release fixes an issue with security implications that has been recently reported in the HTTP remote backend of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server. Setups that are not using this backend are not impacted by t...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.7 and 4.1.7 Released

Peter van Dijk on Mar 18, 2019

These two releases fix an issue with security implications that has been recently reported in the HTTP remote backend of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server. Setups that are not using this backend are not impacted ...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0 Beta 1 Released

Peter van Dijk on Feb 28, 2019

It has been too long a time since the release of PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0-alpha1. The Beta 1 release comes with a lot of bug fixes, improvements and also some new features: LMDB backend, Fixes for Open...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.6 Released

Peter van Dijk on Jan 31, 2019

This release fixes a single issue: the PowerDNS API would accept more than one CNAME record for the same name attribute and would return 204 instead of refusing and returning a 4xx error. The changelog: #7279: Pr...

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Domain security outside of DNS: Getting hacked administratively

Bert Hubert on Jan 23, 2019

This is a brief blogpost on the news that has been sent to us by many people, namely that there is a suspected Iranian group that is “hijacking DNS”. I was about to be interviewed on this subject but sadly that f...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0-alpha1: Lua records, ixfrdist, swagger

Peter van Dijk on Dec 14, 2018

We’re proud to release the first alpha version of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2 series. While some users have already deployed this version straight from our package builders or master repositories, this ...

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