Released on the 1st of May 2008 - contains a small security fix. Generic GPL sources: http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/pdns-recursor-3.1.6.tar.bz2
32-bit Linux: http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/deb/pdns-recursor_3.1.6-1_i386.deb http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/rpm/pdns-recursor-3.1.6-1.i386.rpm 64-bit Linux: http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/rpm/pdns-recursor-3.1.6-1.x86_64.rpm http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/rpm/pdns-recursor-3.1.6-1.x86_64.rpm Release notes with clickable links: http://doc.powerdns.com/changelog.html#CHANGELOG-RECURSOR-3-1-6 This version fixes two important problems, each on its own important enough to justify a quick upgrade. * The new high-quality random generator was not used for all random numbers, especially in source port selection. This means that 3.1.5 is still a lot more secure than 3.1.4 was, and its algorithms more secure than most other nameservers, but it also means 3.1.5 is not as secure as it could be. A quick upgrade is recommended. Discovered by Thomas Biege of Novell (SUSE), fixed in commit 1179. * Version 3.1.5 had problems resolving several slightly misconfigured domains, including for a time 'juniper.net'. Nameserver timeouts were not being processed correctly, leading PowerDNS to not update the internal clock, which in turn meant that any queries immediately following an error would time out as well. Because of retries, this would usually not be a problem except on very busy servers, for domains with different nameservers at different levels of the DNS-hierarchy, like 'juniper.net'. This issue was fixed rapidly because of the help of XS4ALL (Eric Veldhuyzen, Kai Storbeck), Brad Dameron and Kees Monshouwer. Fix in commit 1178. -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Software http://netherlabs.nl Open and Closed source services _______________________________________________ Pdns-users mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-users
