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On SRP – some implementation notes and a critical review
Bert Hubert on Feb 07, 2012
Some time ago, Dan Kaminsky mentioned the Secure Remote Password protocol (SRP) on Twitter. As I find certificates to be cumbersome, I’m always interested in solutions to setup trusted communications without them...
Four million pings only – aka 1 dimensional DNS radar
Bert Hubert on Jan 15, 2012
Quick post as I have no time to work on this for now. Ages ago I read a book, I think by Arthur C. Clarke, where powerful atomic bombs were used to generate radar pulses so powerful, the return signal was used to...
PowerDNS Recursor additional Lua hooks for IPv6 DNS64 and Renumbering
Bert Hubert on Nov 14, 2010
Dear PowerDNS Community, The PowerDNS Recursor is currently being extended with additional Lua hooks and extra infrastructure to support flexible DNS64 operations, plus perform on-the-fly IPv4 or IPv6 renumbering...
PowerDNS Recursor 3.3 released!
Bert Hubert on Sep 23, 2010
Hi everybody, We’re proud to announce the release of the PowerDNS Recursor 3.3! It can be downloaded from http://www.powerdns.com/ Version 3.3 fixes a number of small but persistent issues, rounds off our IPv6 %l...
Some notes on Solaris 10 x86, 64 bit compilation, bugs and memory allocator...
Bert Hubert on Aug 28, 2010
Over the past few months, I’ve spent a lot of time getting the PowerDNS Recursor to perform well on Solaris 10 on x86. Initially, I thought this could not be a lot of work since there are many happy Recursor user...
Better statistical regression tests: Release your inner German!
Bert Hubert on Jun 13, 2010
Hi everybody, The PowerDNS Recursor 3.2 release is holding up well for almost all users, but still some slight issues have crept up. One of the issues involved, where we needed to work around an artefact/issue/qu...
PowerDNS Recursor 3.2 Release Candidate 1
Bert Hubert on Feb 10, 2010
Hi everybody, Please find below the release notes of the PowerDNS Recursor version 3.2, release candidate 1. RC1 is already deployed in a number of large places, and it appears to be holding up well. In addition,...
Critical PowerDNS Recursor Security Vulnerabilities: please upgrade ASAP to...
Bert Hubert on Jan 06, 2010
Dear PowerDNS Users, Two major vulnerabilities have recently been discovered in the PowerDNS Recursor (all versions up to and including 3.1.7.1). Over the past two weeks, these vulnerabilities have been addressed...
When DNS is cool and when it is not
Bert Hubert on Nov 11, 2009
Whenever massive query rates are desired for globally distributed data, with high redundancy and built in positive and negative caching, people think of DNS. Popular examples are of course our day to day use of t...
xs.powerdns.com: PowerDNS Development & Community Server @ xs4all!
Bert Hubert on Nov 08, 2009
Hi everybody, Over the past few months, the PowerDNS Wiki and Subversion servers had a hard time and were no longer able to keep up with the growing amounts of traffic. Since these servers also routed my personal...