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Important Update for Security Advisory 2015-01

Important Update for Security Advisory 2015-01

Last week, we released Security Advisory 2015-01, with text suggesting that only specific platforms were seriously affected. We must now report that this was incorrect: all platforms are impacted. The advisory ha...

Security Advisory 2015-01

Security Advisory 2015-01

UPDATE: please also read the update posted on May 1st. Hi everybody, Please be aware of PowerDNS Security Advisory 2015-01 (http://doc.powerdns.com/md/security/powerdns-advisory-2015-01/). The good news is that a...

PowerDNS and Open-Xchange agree to merge

PowerDNS and Open-Xchange agree to merge

(Peter van Dijk, Bert Hubert, Rafael Laguna, Mikko Linnamäki, Markku Kenttä, Timo Sirainen) Hi everybody, We’re currently at World Hosting Days in Rust Germany, where we just announced that PowerDNS will be joini...

Problems posting to our mailing lists

Problems posting to our mailing lists

Hi everybody, Over the past few months, we’d been receiving some reports of people having problems posting to our lists. At first, it appeared the problem was caused by subscribers emailing to the wrong list addr...

PowerDNS Jobs: are you available?

PowerDNS Jobs: are you available?

Hi everybody, In short: there is a market for (small) PowerDNS jobs, and if you are available for such work, read on for where we’ll be sending people who need PowerDNS work done! The longer story: As PowerDNS us...

How to talk to an open source software project as a large scale or otherwise interesting user

How to talk to an open source software project as a large scale or otherwis...

The very short version: if you contact an open source project anonymously, you may not get the best help. Feel free to also reach out privately and share that your post from gmail.com is actually (say) from a ver...

On PowerDNS.COM and Express PowerDNS.NET Hosting by Trilab

On PowerDNS.COM and Express PowerDNS.NET Hosting by Trilab

Hi everybody, This post serves to clarify why we (‘PowerDNS.COM’) can’t help you with issues with Express PowerDNS.NET hosting by Trilab. The short version is: they are a fully different company, and we have no a...

Automated Coverity security scanning of PowerDNS Projects

Automated Coverity security scanning of PowerDNS Projects

Hi everybody, PowerDNS values the security of the internet, and strives to keep its programs as secure as possible. To further this cause, we’ve run our code through the Coverity Development Testing suite, and as...

PowerDNS completes move to GitHub!

PowerDNS completes move to GitHub!

Hi everybody, After a serious amount of work, we’ve completed the move to GitHub. We have successfully migrated all tickets, branches, tags, commits, attachments and patches from our old Subversion and Trac serve...

Welcome!

Welcome!

Welcome to the new dedicated PowerDNS blog! Previously we had various personal blogs that mentioned PowerDNS a lot, but not everything is under one roof. Most relevant posts have been copied to this site already....