[Pdns-dev] PowerDNS Recursor 3.1.7 released - with DNS scripting!
Chet Nichols III
chet.nichols at gmail.com
Wed Jun 25 19:54:46 CEST 2008
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 shut down, the observed effect is that users were fed outdated data.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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