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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...
PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.4.11 and Recursor 3.7.4 released!
Today, we are releasing version 3.4.11 of the PowerDNS Authoritative Server and version 3.7.4 of the PowerDNS Recursor. These releases fix several security issues that were reported to PowerDNS. It concerns the f...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.4 released!
We are happy to announce the release of the PowerDNS Recursor version 4.0.4. This release fixes 2 security issues and adds several improvements to the DNSSEC validation code. The following PowerDNS Security Advis...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.3 released
A new release for the PowerDNS Recursor with version 4.0.3 is available. This release has many fixes and improvements in the Policy Engine (RPZ) and the Lua bindings to it. Therefore, we recommend users of RPZ to...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.2 released
Today, the PowerDNS Recursor version 4.0.2 is released. This version fixes several bugs, among which was a regression in 4.x where CNAME records for DNSSEC signed domains were not sorted before the final answers,...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.1 released
We’re happy to announce the release of the PowerDNS Recursor version 4.0.1. This release has several improvements with regards to DNSSEC validation and it improves interoperability with DNSSEC clients that expect...
Welcome to PowerDNS 4.0.0!
Today a rather epic journey ends. In this post, we describe how 4.0.0 came to be, what we did, what we added, but also answer the big question: should I deploy PowerDNS 4? And enable DNSSEC validation? Finally.. ...
PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 released!
We are pleased to announce the availability of the PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0. As announced, the Recursor was part of the great PowerDNS 4.x Spring Cleaning. And it was indeed kind of grand. More about the 4.0.0 rel...
Response Policy Zone support in PowerDNS Recursor
Soon to be released, PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 includes a lot of exciting features. We have already blogged about some of them, but apart from a post on our mailing-list, the new Response Policy Zone support has no...
DNS: As we add more user-visible features, “open” becomes more important
DNS is an ancient protocol. Despite being invented in 1983, any software written at that time would still be compatible with the Domain Name System as it is used today.