Erik Winkels

Developer at PowerDNS

PowerDNS DNSdist 1.7.4 Released

Erik Winkels on Apr 14, 2023

Hello!

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First Release Candidate of PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.0

Erik Winkels on Sep 21, 2020

Hello! We are proud to announce the first release candidate of what should become PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.0. Compared to the beta release, this release fixes two bugs: • Only do QName Minimization for the names ins...

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PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.0.8 and 4.1.10 Released

Erik Winkels on Jun 21, 2019

These are security releases. The 4.0.8 and 4.1.10 (together with 4.1.9) releases fix the following security advisories: PowerDNS Security Advisory 2019-04 (CVE-2019-10162) PowerDNS Security Advisory 2019-05 (CVE-...

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PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.14 Released

Erik Winkels on Jun 13, 2019

This is a maintenance release that adds two counters for the number of queries received with the AD and CD bit set. The counters are named dnssec-authentic-data-queries and dnssec-check-disabled-queries, respecti...

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PowerDNS Recursor 4.2.0 Release Candidate 1

Erik Winkels on May 23, 2019

We’re proud to announce Release Candidate 1 for the PowerDNS Recursor 4.2 release train. There have been some minor changes since the beta 1: #7818: Use net-snmp-config --netsnmp-agent-libs instead of --agent-lib...

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PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.13 Released

Erik Winkels on May 21, 2019

This is a maintenance release to optionally reduce the performance impact of memory-statistics collection and a fix in the DNSSEC processing of wildcard records. The changelog: #7673: Add the disable-real-memory-...

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PowerDNS Recursor 4.2.0 Beta 1 Released

Erik Winkels on May 07, 2019

The Beta 1 release comes with a lot of bug fixes, improvements and also some new features: Add a new max-cache-bogus-ttl option to cap the TTL of a record that has been validated as Bogus in the query cache, so i...

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PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.12 Released

Erik Winkels on Apr 03, 2019

This is a maintenance release with improvements for high-performance sites (and a wild bug fix appeared). The changelog: #7634: Use a bounded load-balancing algo to distribute queries. #7651: Implement a configur...

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PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.11 Released

Erik Winkels on Feb 01, 2019

Since Spectre / Meltdown, system calls have become more expensive. In addition, relevant versions of glibc turn out to implement pthread_cond_wait and pthread_cond_signal in such a way that they use multiple syst...

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PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.10 Released

Erik Winkels on Jan 24, 2019

This release is only relevant when building PowerDNS Recursor from source with protobuf support disabled. Release 4.1.10 fixes a bug where the recursor would not build when one had protobuf support disabled. The ...

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