[Pdns-dev] PowerDNS Recursor 3.1.7 released - with DNS scripting!

[Chet Nichols III]

Just wanted to say congrats to Bert and everyone who worked on this! The
ability to script is huge; there are too many companies out there that
charge thousand upon thousands of dollars for a boxed solution, including
'special' hardware, to filter out malware domains and NXDOMAIN redirection,
when all people really need now is this latest release of pdns ;)
Take care-

Chet

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:12 AM, bert hubert <bert.hubert at netherlabs.nl>
wrote:

> Available on:
>  http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/pdns-recursor-3.1.7.tar.bz2
>  http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/deb/pdns-recursor_3.1.7-1_i386.deb
>
> http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/deb/pdns-recursor_3.1.7-1_amd64.deb
>
>  http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/rpm/pdns-recursor-3.1.7-1.i386.rpm
>
> http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/rpm/pdns-recursor-3.1.7-1.x86_64.rpm
>
> Release notes (clickable version on
> http://doc.powerdns.com/changelog.html#CHANGELOG-RECURSOR-3-1-7 )
>
> This version contains powerful scripting abilities, allowing operators to
> modify DNS responses in many interesting ways. Among other things, these
> abilities can be used to filter out malware domains, to perform load
> balancing, to comply with legal and other requirements and finally, to
> implement 'NXDOMAIN' redirection.
>
> It is hoped that the addition of Lua scripting will enable responsible DNS
> modification for those that need it.
>
> For more details about the Lua scripting, which can be modified, loaded
> and unloaded at runtime, see Section 12.6. Many thanks are due to the #lua
> irc channel, for excellent near-realtime Lua support. In addition, a
> number of PowerDNS users have been enthousiastically testing prereleases
> of the scripting support, and have found and solved many issues.
>
> In addition, 3.1.7 fixes a number of bugs:
>
>  * In 3.1.5 and 3.1.6, an authoritative server could continue to renew
>    its authority, even though a domain had been delegated to other
>    servers in the meantime.
>
>    In the rare cases where this happened, and the old servers were not
>    shut down, the observed effect is that users were fed outdated data.
>
>    Bug spotted and analysed by Darren Gamble, fix in commit 1182 and
>    commit 1183.
>
>  * Thanks to long time PowerDNS contributor Stefan Arentz, for the first
>    time, Mac OS X 10.5 users can compile and run the PowerDNS Recursor!
>    Patch in commit 1185.
>
>  * Sten Spans spotted that for outgoing TCP/IP queries, the
>    query-local-address setting was not honored. Fixed in commit 1190.
>
>  * rec_control wipe-cache now also wipes domains from the negative cache,
>    hurrying up the expiry of negatively cached records. Suggested by
>    Simon Kirby, implemented in commit 1204.
>
>  * When a forwarder server is configured for a domain, using the
>    forward-zones setting, this server IP address was filtered using the
>    dont-query setting, which is generally not what is desired: the server
>    to which queries are forwarded will often live in private IP space,
>    and the operator should be trusted to know what he is doing. Reported
>    and argued by Simon Kirby, fix in commit 1211.
>
>  * Marcus Rueckert of OpenSUSE reported that very recent gcc versions
>    emitted a (correct) warning on an overly complicated line in
>    syncres.cc, fixed in commit 1189.
>
>  * Stefan Schmidt discovered that the netmask matching code, used by the
>    new Lua scripts, but also by all other parts of PowerDNS, had problems
>    with explicit '/32' matches. Fixed in commit 1205.
>
>
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