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Bert Hubert on May 21, 2012

I’m working on some high performance code which needs to scale to many, many CPUs. Against better judgement, I decided to use threads again, but to steer clear from anything that needs locking. I’ve previously fo...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...