Welcome to the PowerDNS Blog
Authoritative Server 3.4.5, 3.3.3 and Recursor 3.7.3, 3.6.4 released
We’re pleased to announce the availibility of a number of PowerDNS releases. These releases share a performance update that prevents short bursts of high resource usage with malformed qnames. The full changelogs ...
PowerDNS needs your help: What are we missing?
Hi everybody, As we’re working on PowerDNS 4.x, we are wondering: what are we missing? The somewhat longer story is that as a software developer, a sort of feature-blindness creeps up on you. We try to make the s...
DNS: Your customer’s gateway to the Internet
PowerDNS and Dovecot joined the Open-Xchange family at WorldWostingDay 2015 in Rust
Recursor 3.7.2
Hi everybody, We’re pleased to announce version 3.7.2 of our Recursor. The most important part of this update is a fix for CVE-2015-1868. Please see http://doc.powerdns.com/md/security/powerdns-advisory-2015-01/ ...
Recursor 3.6.3
Hi everybody, We’re pleased to announce version 3.6.3 of our Recursor. The most important part of this update is a fix for CVE-2015-1868. Please see http://doc.powerdns.com/md/security/powerdns-advisory-2015-01/ ...
PowerDNS development plans: 4.x DNSSEC, C++ 2011!
In this post, we’d like to share our current plans for .. PowerDNS 4.x! We shared this first with the PowerDNS-development community, and after we gathered feedback, we’re now announcing it more broadly. The tl;d...
New PowerDNS employee, the importance of testing RCs, skipping 3.7.0, World...
Hi everybody, Some assorted remarks & PowerDNS news: 1) New employee 2) Please test our release candidates 3) 3.7.0 has been skipped, all hail 3.7.1 4) World Hosting days in Germany New employee To start with...
PowerDNS Recursor 3.7.1 Released
Released February 12th, 2015. Download page. This version contains a mix of speedups and improvements, the combined effect of which is vastly improved resilience against traffic spikes and malicious query overloa...
An introduction to PowerDNS Recursor 3.7.0
Today we released the first Release Candidate (RC) of PowerDNS Recursor 3.7.0. And although we do document (almost) all of our features, documentation is not the same as effectively informing our users of what ou...
Diverting recursor-to-auth attacks
We get frequent reports from users/customers about various DNS-related attacks they are facing on either their authoritatives or recursors. This post focuses on one kind of attack that involves both. The attack w...