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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...

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...

Bert Hubert on Aug 11, 2009

Very brief note to let you know that I’m thrilled that PowerDNS will be serving the HAR 2009 visitors! It has previously also been used by the same people at CCC congresses. I’m very proud of this, and I hope the...

Bert Hubert on Aug 02, 2009

I’m pretty proud of this release, or to state it better, proud of not having a real reason to do a release for over a year. Over the past year, the PowerDNS Recursor has gone places I never thought it would go, p...