[Pdns-users] PowerDNS 2.9.16 released!

[Remco Post]

hmm, small fix I did for the ldap backend and forgot to submit:

dinkie$ diff -u powerldap.hh 
../../../pdns-2.9.15/modules/ldapbackend/powerldap.hh
--- powerldap.hh        Fri Jan 16 15:24:12 2004
+++ ../../../pdns-2.9.15/modules/ldapbackend/powerldap.hh       Tue Feb 
  3 00:49:35 2004
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
  #include <errno.h>
  #include <lber.h>
  #include <ldap.h>
+#include <pdns/utility.hh>




On Feb 28, 2004, at 22:04, bert hubert wrote:

>                Available on http://www.powerdns.com/downloads
>
> The 'it must still be Friday somewhere' release. Massive number of 
> fixes,
> portability improvements and the new Geobackend by Mark Bergsma & 
> friends.
>
> New:
>
>   * The Geobackend which makes it possible to send different answers to
>     different IP ranges. Initial documentation can be found in
>     pdns/modules/geobackend/README.
>
>   * qgen query generation tool. Nearly completely undocumented and 
> hard to
>     build too, it requires Boost. But very spiffy. Use cd pdns; make 
> qgen
>     to build it.
>
> Bugfixes:
>
>   * The most reported bug ever, zone2sql required the inclusion of
>     unistd.h, except on Debian unstable.
>
>   * PowerDNS tried to listen on its control "pipe" which does not work.
>     Probably harmless, but might have caused some oddities.
>
>   * The Packet Cache did not always set its TTL immediately, causing 
> some
>     packets to be inserted, even when running with the cache disabled
>     (Mark Bergsma).
>
>   * Valgrind found some unitialized reads, causing bogus values in the
>     priority field when it was not needed
>
>   * Valgrind found a bug in MTasker where we used delete instead of
>     delete[].
>
>   * SOA serials and other parameters are unsigned. This means that very
>     large SOA serial numbers would be messed up (Michel Stol, Stefano
>     Straus)
>
>   * PowerDNS left its controlsocket around after exit and reported
>     confusing errors if a socket was already in use.
>
>   * The recursor proxy did not work on big endian systems like SPARC 
> and
>     some MIPS processors (Remco Post)
>
>   * We no longer dump core on processing LOC records on UltraSPARC 
> (Andrew
>     Mulholland supplied a testing machine)
>
> Improvements:
>
>   * MySQL can now connect to a specified port again (Chris Anderton)
>
>   * When running chroot()ed and with master or slave support active,
>     PowerDNS needs to resolve domain names to find slaves. This in turn
>     may require access to certain libraries. Previously, these needed 
> to
>     be available in the chroot directory but by forcing an initial 
> lookup,
>     these libraries are now loaded before the chrooting.
>
>   * pdns_recursor was very slow after having done a larger number of
>     queries because of the checks to see if a query should be 
> throttled.
>     This is now done using a set which is a lot faster than the 
> previous
>     full sequential scan.
>
>   * The throttling code may not have throttled as much as was 
> configured.
>
>   * Yet another big LDAP update. The LDAP backend now loadbalances
>     connections over several hosts (Norbert Sendetzky)
>
>   * Updated b.root-servers.net address in the recursor
>
>
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