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Security Advisory 2022-02 for PowerDNS Recursor up to and including 4.5.9, ...

Otto Moerbeek on Aug 23, 2022

Hello, Today we have released PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.10, 4.6.3 and 4.7.2 due to a medium severity issue found. The security advisory only applies to Recursors running with protobuf logging enabled. Please find the...

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PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.1 Released

Otto Moerbeek on Jul 08, 2022

We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.1. This release is a maintenance releases correcting an issue where asynchronous tasks would not be executed promptly. It also allows the generic reco...

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PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.0 Released

Otto Moerbeek on May 30, 2022

We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.0. Compared to the previous major (4.6) release of PowerDNS Recursor, this release contains the following major changes: A configurable way of adding ...

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First Release Candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.0

Otto Moerbeek on May 06, 2022

We are proud to announce the first release candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.0. Testing of this release candidate is much appreciated! The most important change compared to the 4.7.0-beta1 release is a fix for t...

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Refreshing Of Almost Expired Records: Keeping The Cache Hot

Otto Moerbeek on Apr 28, 2022

We’re planning to do a series of posts to highlight some of the features we have been working in recent releases or the Recursor. We also plan to discuss some C++ programming techniques we used in the Recursor th...

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First Beta Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.0

Otto Moerbeek on Apr 14, 2022

We are proud to announce the first beta release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.0. Compared to the previous major (4.6) release of PowerDNS Recursor, this release contains the following major changes: A configurable way...

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PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.2 and 4.5.9 Released

Otto Moerbeek on Apr 04, 2022

We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.6.2 and 4.5.9. Both releases are maintenance releases correcting an issue where a reload of a Lua script could cause in-flight queries to fail and an im...

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Security Advisory 2022-01 for PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.4.2, 4.5.3, 4...

Otto Moerbeek on Mar 25, 2022

Hello, Today we have released PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.4.3, 4.5.4 and 4.6.1, and PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.8, 4.5.8 and 4.6.1 due to a low severity issue found in both products. In the Authoritative server thi...

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Super-Charge Your 5G Network by Moving DNS to the Edge

Neil Cook on Mar 08, 2022

The number of 5G subscribers is expected to exceed 580 million by end of 2021, with 3.5 billion subscribers predicted in 2026, according to Ericsson's recent mobility report. This means that it is set to become t...

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First Alpha Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.0

Otto Moerbeek on Feb 28, 2022

We are proud to announce the first alpha release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.7.0. Compared to the previous major (4.6) release of PowerDNS Recursor, this release contains the following major changes: ZONEMD validation...

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