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PowerDNS Recursor: writing to a file you did not open

PowerDNS Recursor: writing to a file you did not open

This is the sixth part of a series of blog posts we are publishing, mostly around recent developments with respect to PowerDNS Recursor: Refreshing Of Almost Expired Records: Keeping The Cache Hot, Probing DoT Su...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0 Released

PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0 Released

We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0. Compared to the previous major (4.7) release of PowerDNS Recursor, this release contains the following major changes: Structured Logging has been i...

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.5, 4.6.4 and 4.7.3 Released

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.5, 4.6.4 and 4.7.3 Released

Hello, Today we have released maintenance updates of PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.5, 4.6.4 and 4.7.3, containing fixes for a few minor issues. For more details on the other fixes, consult the changelogs avai...

Production-ready PowerDNS Cloud Control available

Production-ready PowerDNS Cloud Control available

DNS is one of the vital components of the internet, invisibly making the internet work for everyone for almost four decades. It needs to be rock-solid, in terms of reliability, performance and scalability. PowerD...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.12, 4.6.5 and 4.7.4 Released

PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.12, 4.6.5 and 4.7.4 Released

Hello, Today we have released a maintenance release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.12, 4.6.5 and 4.7.4, containing fixes for a few minor issues. In particular, RPZ IXFRs now time out if the server becomes unresponsive....

First Release Candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0

First Release Candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0

We are proud to announce the first release candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0. We invite all users to test this release candidate, so that we can release the final PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0 soon. Compared to the ...

Second Beta Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0

Second Beta Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0

We are proud to announce the second beta release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0. Compared to the previous major (4.7) release of PowerDNS Recursor, this release contains the following major changes: Structured Loggin...

dnsdist 1.7.3 released

dnsdist 1.7.3 released

Hello! We are very happy to release dnsdist 1.7.3 today, a maintenance release with no functional changes. This release strictly serves to bring dnsdist packages to our EL9 and Ubuntu Jammy repositories, and upgr...

Authoritative Server 4.7.2

Authoritative Server 4.7.2

This is the release of version 4.7.2 of the Authoritative Server. Just one day after releasing version 4.7.1, we realised an important fix was missing from it. Specifically, AXFR clients (secondaries) can get ver...

Authoritative Server 4.7.1

Authoritative Server 4.7.1

This is the release of version 4.7.1 of the Authoritative Server. After 4.7.0 (quite recently) was released, we realised the SQL schema update files were missing. 4.7.1 corrects this. It also contains a few small...