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Response Policy Zone support in PowerDNS Recursor

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: 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.

PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 Release Candidate 1 Released

PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 Release Candidate 1 Released

We’re happy to announce the availability of the first (and hopefully last) Release Candidate of the PowerDNS Recursor. This release has the finishing touches to the experimental DNSSEC support by adding (Negative...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 Beta 1 released

PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 Beta 1 released

We are pleased to announce the availability the PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 Beta 1. This release has two important improvements in the DNSSEC implementation: a better fallback to non-DNSSEC when dealing with old and ...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 Alpha 3 released

PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 Alpha 3 released

We are pleased to announce the release of the PowerDNS recursor 4.0.0 Alpha 3. This release features a great number of DNSSEC correctness fixes. Changes from 4.0.0 Alpha 2 are: #3752 Correct handling of query fla...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 Alpha 2 released

PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 Alpha 2 released

We’re happy to announce the release of the PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 Alpha 2. This release features many low-level performance fixes and restores forward-zones functionality. Changes from 4.0.0-alpha1 are: #3259, #...

PowerDNS & CVE-2015-7547: possible mitigation

PowerDNS & CVE-2015-7547: possible mitigation

Since yesterday we have been following and studying CVE-2015-7547. More about which here. In short, this is a vulnerability not in PowerDNS products but in the Linux C library. This vulnerability could be exploit...

Efficient & optional filtering of domains in Recursor 4.0.0

Efficient & optional filtering of domains in Recursor 4.0.0

As we gear up for the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0, we are doing a series of posts describing new cool features which you can try out today. Many deployments are already running with 4.x alphas or snapshots...

Open Source Support: out in the open

Open Source Support: out in the open

As an Open Source project, PowerDNS works hard to support its users and customers. We also love to work with our collaborators, our community, on projects inside and outside of PowerDNS. This way we’ve contribute...

Technical Preview Releases of Authoritative Server, Recursor and dnsdist

Technical Preview Releases of Authoritative Server, Recursor and dnsdist

Hi everybody! As recently announced, we have finished the great PowerDNS 4.x Spring Cleaning. And it was indeed kind of grand. We consciously set out to fix many things that had been waiting for years to be addre...