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PowerDNS Authoritative: Lua Records
Hi everyone, We are happy to share a new development with you, one that we hinted at over a year ago: Lua resource records. In this post, we ask for your help: did we get the feature right? Are we missing importa...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1
Version 4.1 is a major upgrade for the Authoritative Server, delivering improvements and speedups developed and tested over the past 12 months. Many large scale deployments have already migrated to this release b...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.5 and Recursor 4.0.7 Released
Today we announce the release of both the PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.5 and Recursor 4.0.7 which contain a lot of backports from the 4.1.x branch. These releases also drop support for Botan 1.10 in favor of...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.0 Release Candidate 3 Available
We present what should be our last release candidate for PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.0: Release Candidate 3! If no major issues are found we expect to release the final version within the next two weeks. Th...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.0 Release Candidate 2 Available
Now that the Release Candidate 1 has simmered for a while, we present PowerDNS Authoritative Server Release Candidate 2! Thanks to everyone who tested RC1. This release has several performance improvements, stabi...
DNS performance metrics: the logarithmic percentile histogram
DNS performance is always a hot topic. No DNS-OARC, RIPE or IETF conference is complete without new presentations on DNS performance measurements. Most of these benchmarks focus on denial-of-service resistance: w...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.0 Release Candidate 1 Released
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.0 RC1 is here! This release marks The Return of the LDAP Backend. Also recursion has been removed from the authoritative server (see #4752 below) and a CryptoKey API endpoint is ...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.4 released!
Today we are releasing version 4.0.4 of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server. This release features a fix for the ed25519 signer. This signer hashed the message before signing, resulting in unverifiable signatures. ...
PowerDNS Authoritative 4.0.4 Release Candidate 1 released!
Because 4.0.3 is 5 months ago, and a lot has happened since (see the long changelog below), we are doing a release candidate for release 4.0.4. The full changelog looks like this: Bug fixes #5346: configure.ac: c...
PowerDNS Jobs, 4.1 roadmap, DNSSEC research
Hi everyone, In this post, we want to mention a few things: PowerDNS Jobs, 4.1 plans & some DNSSEC research. First, PowerDNS is growing rapidly as more and more large scale service providers displace closed D...