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PowerDNS development plans: 4.x DNSSEC, C++ 2011!
In this post, we’d like to share our current plans for .. PowerDNS 4.x! We shared this first with the PowerDNS-development community, and after we gathered feedback, we’re now announcing it more...
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Introducing dnsdist: DNS, abuse- and DoS-aware query distribution for optimal...
Over the years, PowerDNS users have frequently asked us about our preferred DNS load balancing solution, and we’ve never had a satisfying answer for that. Users of dedicated hardware often tell us that...
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World Hosting Days & Private Graphs as a Service!
Hi everybody, Two announcements in one: First, like 7000 others, we’ll be visiting World Hosting Days in Rust, Germany next week. Peter, Pieter and I will be there, as will be two of our wonderful...
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PowerDNS and Open-Xchange agree to merge
(Peter van Dijk, Bert Hubert, Rafael Laguna, Mikko Linnamäki, Markku Kenttä, Timo Sirainen) Hi everybody, We’re currently at World Hosting Days in Rust Germany, where we just announced that PowerDNS...
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DNS-OARC Spring Workshop 2015
This weekend, PowerDNS attended the DNS-OARC Spring Workshop 2015 in force, with 100% attendance. I shamefully have to admit this is the first time I’ve gone to an OARC workshop, but I was well...
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PowerDNS 2.x End of Life Statement
PowerDNS 2.x End of Life Statement 21st of May 2015 PowerDNS Authoritative Server 2.9.22 was released more than 6 years ago, in January 2009. Because of its immense and durable popularity, some patch...
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PowerDNS needs your help: What are we missing?
Hi everybody, As we’re working on PowerDNS 4.x, we are wondering: what are we missing? The somewhat longer story is that as a software developer, a sort of feature-blindness creeps up on you. We try to...
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What is a PowerDNS Backend? And how do I make it send an NXDOMAIN?
PowerDNS is a dynamic nameserver, with a ton of backends. If the supplied backends aren’t flexible enough, our architecture enables operators to write their own, or to use one of our forwarding...
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PowerDNS at Open-Xchange Summit in Berlin, 8-9 October 2015
Hi everybody! Since we are now happily part of Open-Xchange, together with our friends at Dovecot IMAPd, we will also be present at the Open-Xchange summit in Berlin, October 8-9 this year. This is a...
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Providing first tier support – Why writing and owning your software is critical
The recently exposed denial-of-service vulnerability in a popular DNS server implementation really highlights the benefits of software providers writing and owning the software that they deliver to...
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The PowerDNS Spring Cleaning
Hi everybody, In this post we’d like to update you on what has been achieved in the development of the PowerDNS 4.x products: Authoritative, Recursor and dnsdist. First, I am very proud that we managed...
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Open Source Support: out in the open
As an Open Source project, PowerDNS works hard to support its users and customers. We also love to work with our collaborators, our community, on projects inside and outside of PowerDNS. This way we’ve...
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Efficient & optional filtering of domains in Recursor 4.0.0
As we gear up for the release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0, we are doing a series of posts describing new cool features which you can try out today. Many deployments are already running with 4.x alphas...
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Per device DNS settings: selective parental control
This is the second post in a series that highlights interesting new features of the PowerDNS 4.x.x and dnsdist 1.x.x releases. As noted previously, in some organizations it is desirable to filter...
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PowerDNS Authoritative: the new old way to manage domains
This is the third post in a series that highlights interesting new features of the PowerDNS 4.x.x and dnsdist 1.x.x releases. I (Bert) have to admit something. Even though I set out to write a database...
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PowerDNS & CVE-2015-7547: possible mitigation
Since yesterday we have been following and studying CVE-2015-7547. More about which here. In short, this is a vulnerability not in PowerDNS products but in the Linux C library. This vulnerability could...
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An important update on new PowerDNS Products
Hi everybody, This is a heads-up on some announcements you will be seeing on powerdns.com relating to new PowerDNS products which (gasp) are not fully Open Source. We know this is a sensitive subject,...
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Welcome to PowerDNS 4.0.0!
Today a rather epic journey ends. In this post, we describe how 4.0.0 came to be, what we did, what we added, but also answer the big question: should I deploy PowerDNS 4? And enable DNSSEC...
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OX Summit 2016: 13th-14th October, Frankfurt
Hi everybody, Like last year, this year PowerDNS will again be part of the OX/Dovecot/PowerDNS summit. This time round we visit Frankfurt on the 13th and 14th of October. This is already in a few...
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Some good news on powerdns.org
Way way back in the history of PowerDNS, we bought the full suite of domain names for our new company: powerdns.com, powerdns.net, powerdns.org. Alternate names for the company we considered at the...
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