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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 shut down, the observed effect is that users were fed outdated data.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. > > > -- > http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Software > http://netherlabs.nl Open and Closed source services > _______________________________________________ > Pdns-dev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-dev > -- ---------------------------------------- chet nichols III [EMAIL PROTECTED] aim: chet / twitter: chet http://chetnichols.org ----------------------------------------
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