Software Update: PowerDNS 2.9.8

Version 2.9.8 of PowerDNS has recently been released. This program is a pure DNS server with a database as the back-end, which allows the management of a large number of DNS entries in an easy way. The release notes let us know the following:

Queen’s Day Release! 30th of April 2003.
Added support for AIX, fixed negative SOA caching. Some other cleanups. Not a major release but enough reasons to upgrade.

Bug fixed:

• Recursor had problems expiring negatively cached entries, which wasted memory and also led to the continued non-existence of hosts that since had come into existence.
• The Generic SQL backends did not lowercase the names of records, which led to new records not being found by case sensitive databases (notably PostgreSQL). Found by Volker Goetz.
• NS queries for zones for which we did not carry authority, but only had delegation information, had their NS records in the wrong section. Minor detail, but a standards violation on etheless. Spotted by Stephane Bortzmeyer.

Improvements:

• Removed crypt.h dependency from powerldap.hh, which was a problem on some platforms (Richard Arends)
• PowerDNS can’t parse so called binary labels which we now detect and ignore, after printing a warning.
• Specifying allow-axfr-ips now automatically disables AXFR for all non-mentioned addresses.
• A Solaris ready init.d script is now part of the tar.gz (contributed, but I lost by whom).
• Added some fixes to PowerDNS can work on AIX (spotted by Markus Heimhilcher).
• Norbert Sendetzky contributed zone2ldap.
• Everybody’s favorite compiler warning from zone2sql.cc was removed!
• Recursor now listens on TCP!

[break]The following downloads are available:
Unix/Win32 GPL Sources
Linux Debian Static
Linux RPM Static (Generic RPM, Redhat 6.x and 7.x)