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Domain security outside of DNS: Getting hacked administratively
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...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0-alpha1: Lua records, ixfrdist, swagger
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 ...
Enabling continuous fuzzing of PowerDNS products
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...
Important Changes in PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.2.0
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...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.6 & 4.1.5 and Recursor 4.0.9 & 4....
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...
Spoofing DNS with fragments
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...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.4 released
We’re happy to announce the release of the PowerDNS Authoritative server version 4.1.4. This maintenance release features several bug fixes. The two most important being a fix in the handling of child-zones with ...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.3 Released
We’re pleased to announce the availability of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server version 4.1.3. This is a maintenance release addressing a performance issue in the GeoIP backend and fixes several other issues. The...
Authoritative server 4.1.2 released
This is the third release in the 4.1 train. Besides bug fixes, it contains some performance and usability improvements. Please find the most important changes below. For full details, visit the changelog. Improve...
Authoritative server 4.1.1 released
Released: 16th of Feburary 2018 This is the second release in the 4.1 train. This is a bug-fix only release, with fixes to the LDAP and MySQL backends, the pdnsutil tool, and PDNS internals. Changes since 4.1.1: ...