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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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Enabling continuous fuzzing of PowerDNS products

Peter van Dijk on Dec 12, 2018

We are very happy to announce that PowerDNS recently joined the OSS-Fuzz initiative, enabling continuous fuzzing for critical parts of our products. We are taking this opportunity to share some of our existing se...

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Important Changes in PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0

Peter van Dijk on Dec 07, 2018

Hello PowerDNS user, as the year draws to an end, we are preparing for the release of a new version of the Authoritative Server (and the Recursor – stay tuned for more news in that area). This release (4.2.0) wil...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.6 & 4.1.5 and Recursor 4.0.9 & 4....

Erik Winkels on Nov 06, 2018

We’ve released PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.6 & 4.1.5 and Recursor 4.0.9 & 4.1.5. These are security releases with additional minor improvements and bug fixes. Minimal patches for the releases are av...

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Spoofing DNS with fragments

Bert Hubert on Sep 10, 2018

With some care, it turns out to be possible to spoof fake DNS responses using fragmented datagrams. While preparing a presentation for XS4ALL back in 2009, I found out how this could be done, but I never got roun...

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