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PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.4 Released
Otto Moerbeek on Jul 02, 2021
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
Vittorio Bertola on Jun 29, 2021
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
Otto Moerbeek on Jun 09, 2021
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
Remi Gacogne on Jun 01, 2021
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
Otto Moerbeek on May 11, 2021
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
Otto Moerbeek on May 10, 2021
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
Otto Moerbeek on Apr 14, 2021
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
Robert Brandt on Apr 01, 2021
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
Otto Moerbeek on Mar 31, 2021
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
Pieter Lexis on Mar 26, 2021
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...