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PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.4 Released

PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.4 Released

We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.4. This release contains a fix to an issue where the answer to a non-existent DS query was missing a SOA record. In particular this can be a problem i...

Building trust in European DNS resolvers

Building trust in European DNS resolvers

Open-Xchange recently announced its support for the European Resolver Policy, an industry initiative to provide more transparency and reliability around the operation of DNS resolvers in Europe.

PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.4 and 4.5.2 Released

PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.4 and 4.5.2 Released

We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.4. and 4.5.2. Both releases contain mostly smaller bug fixes. For the 4.5.2 release the default value of nsec3-max-iterations has been lowered to 150,...

DNS cache snooping attack

DNS cache snooping attack

We have been getting questions about “DNS Server Cache Snooping Remote Information Disclosure” attacks lately, mostly coming from reports generated by one very popular security scanner: DNS Server Cache Snooping ...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.1 Released

PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.1 Released

We are proud to announce the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.1. Compared to the release candidate, this release contains two bug fixes. Note that 4.5.0 was never released publicly, since an issue was found durin...

TsuNAME vulnerability and PowerDNS Recursor

TsuNAME vulnerability and PowerDNS Recursor

Recently, the TsuNAME vulnerability was published. It concerns DNS recursors endlessly querying authoritative nameservers if the nameservers listed in the domains form a loop. The researchers contacted us before ...

Second Beta Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.0

Second Beta Release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.0

Hello!, We are proud to announce the second beta release of what should become PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.0. Compared to the first beta release, this release contains a few bug fixes and improvements, in particular a ...

The new face of PowerDNS: GreenDNS

The new face of PowerDNS: GreenDNS

Hello! Today, we of the PowerDNS team are ready to unveil our bold new product strategy: GreenDNS. Admitting the following is quite painful, but to make a better world we must muster the courage to be brutally ho...

PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.3 Released

PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.3 Released

Hello! Today we are releasing PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.3. This release fixes a bug where corrupted Newly Discovered Domain files could crash the recursor on startup and a bug where the wrong TTL could be used when i...

Upcoming package removals

Upcoming package removals

As you may know, PowerDNS hosts RPM and Debian packages in our package repositories. Packages are available in binary form as RPM and Debian packages for various distributions. Some of these distributions are com...