Hi, In this rc2 release putting 0 as 'serial' in the mysql table in the SOA field it is still not being replaced by I believe the unixdate as serial. So that breaks a lot of things among slave updating. The last release this actually worked properly was 2.9.19.
Sincerly, Pascal On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:12 PM, bert hubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Download from: > > http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/pdns-2.9.22-rc1.tar.gz > > http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/deb/stable/pdns-static_2.9.22-rc1-1_i386.deb > > http://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/rpm/pdns-static-2.9.22rc1-1.i386.rpm > > 2.9.22 will be a very important PowerDNS release, especially since it > contains so much change compared to 2.9.21. > > This is why the full 2.9.22 release is preceeded by several Release > Candidates. It is expected that this second candidate will be followed by a > third, which might actually be renamed into 2.9.22. > > Some major sites already run this version, totalling over 130,000 domains, > so things appear to work pretty well. > > We sincerely hope more people will help test this release. If you report > success, or failure, we'll insert your name below in the release notes. > This > is an easy way to contribute to the success of PowerDNS, and get your name > immortalised! > > Finally - this RC also protects against the issue for which 2.9.21.2 was > released this morning. So even from a security perspective, it makes sense > to test this release. > > Provisional Release notes > ------------------------- > (available with clickable links on > http://doc.powerdns.com/changelog.html#CHANGELOG-AUTH-2-9-22 ) > > This is a huge release, spanning almost 18 months of > development. Besides fixing a lot of bugs, of note is the > addition of the so called 'Notification Proxy', which allows > PowerDNS to function as a master server behind a firewall, plus > the huge performance improvement of the internal caches. > > This work has been made possible by UPC Broadband and Directi, > respectively. > > Finally, the release candidates of this version have been > tested & improved by Jorn Ekkelenkamp, Ton van Rosmalen, Jeff > Sipek, Tyler Hall, Christof Meerwald, Stefan Schmidt, *your name*. > > Fixed between rc1 and rc2, but not an issue in 2.9.21. > > * pdns_control ccounts again outputs proper cache statistics. > Implemented in commit 1304. > * Negative query caching was reinstated, leading to 6 times > less backend queries than rc1 on the Express.powerdns.com > servers. > * Packetcache no longer needlessly parses outgoing packets > before sending them. > * Fancy records work again. This work has been sponsored by > ISP Services. Implemented in commit 1302 and commit 1299. > * pdns_control over TCP/IP is now more reliable. > > New features: > > * pdns_control can now also work over TCP/IP. Sponsored by > Directi. Commits 1246, 1251, 1254, 1255. > * Implemented a notification proxy, see Section 19.1. This > work was sponsored by UPC Broadband. Implemented in commits > 1075, 1077, 1082, 1083, 1085 and 1086. > * IXFR queries are now supported in the sense that we treat > them as AXFR queries, silencing warnings in other > nameservers. Suggested in ticket 131. > * The PIPE backend has been extended by David Apgar to allow > the reporting of errors using the 'FAIL' command, plus > support for responses with whitespace. Implemented in > commit 1114. > * PowerDNS Authoritative server now parses incoming EDNS > options, like maximum allowed packet size. Implemented in > commit 1123 and commit 1281. > * Added support for DHCID, IPSECKEY and KX records, thanks > Norbert Sendetzky for the hint. Implemented in commit 1144. > * Norbert Sendetzky has has added support for all record > types supported by PowerDNS to the LDAPBackend. > Furthermore, the detection of OpenLDAP in autoconf has been > improved. Finally, debian has supplied some fixes to > PowerLDAP. Implemented in commit 1152 and commit 1153. > * Implemented EDNS NSID option for retrieving the nameserver > ID out of band. Defaults to hostname, can be specified > using the server-id setting. Code in commit 1232. > * Implemented experimental EDNS PING for enhanced forgery > resilience. Code in commit 1232. > > Performance: > > * Improve packet generation performance, in some cases by > 25%. Code in 1258, 1259. > * Improved access list checking performance. commit 1261. > * PowerDNS Authoritative caches were completely redone, and > are now based on the same cache that is in the resolver. > This work has been sponsored by Directi. In large > benchmarks, PowerDNS performance has improved by an order > of magnitude or more. This new version allows for > near-instantaneous cache purging, plus very rapid purging > based on suffix. Purge commands can also be batched. This > work is partially based on an innovative reverse-string > comparison function authored by Aki Tuomi. > * Installations which run with very high cache hitrates can > now benefit from multiple CPUs by setting receiver-threads > to the number of desired CPUs to utilize in cache > operations. Implemented in commit 1316. > * BIND backend speedups in commit 1108, measured at around a > 20% improvement, possibly more on very large setups. > > Bugs fixed: > > * Tyler Hall discovered the PowerDNS configuration file > parser had problems with trailing tabs. This turned out to > be a wider problem in PowerDNS. Buggy code replaced by a > library call in commit 1237 and commit 1240. > * Connection reset by peer events in the TCP nameserver no > longer lead to the cycling of database connections. Code in > commit 1241. > * FreeBSD compilation with Generic PostgreSQL backend was > fixed. Reported by Wouter de Jong of WideXS, fixed in > commit 1305, closes ticket 95. > * Webserver no longer prints '1e2%'. Finally closes ticket > 26. Much friendly nagging for over 3 years by Jeff Sipek, > code in commit 1303. > * PowerDNS used to ignore certain queries it could not > answer. These queries are no longer ignored, but get a > SERVFAIL response. Implemented in commit 1239. > * Fix subtle CNAME and wildcard interactions reported by > 'zzyzz', implemented in commit 1147. > * The generic backends did not honour the default-ttl > setting. Spotted and implemented by Matti Hiljanen. > * Matti Hiljanen discovered that the OpenDBX backend did not > fill out the SOA ttl value properly. Matti also improved > the SQL statements for better compatability. Implemented in > commit 1181. > * Treat invalid WWW requests better. Spotted by Maikel > Verheijen, implemented in commit 1092. > * Documentation errors and typos, spotted by Marco Davids > (commit 1097) and Rejo Zengers (commit 1119) > * Properly fill out the 'recursion available'-flag. Spotted > by Augie Schwer in ticket 167. > * Several memory leaks on bad data in the database or other > errors have been fixed. Addressed in 1078 and 1079. > * In contravention to the documentation, the domain type as > specified in the database ('MASTER', 'SLAVE' or 'NATIVE') > was interpreted case sensitively. 1084. > * BIND backend could crash on processing information about > slave zones to be checked. Spotted by Stefan Schmidt, fixed > in 1089. > * Jelte Jansen of Stichting NLNetLabs discovered PowerDNS in > BIND mode couldn't operate as a root-server! Fixed in 1057. > * 'DPS' discovered there was a rare opportunity for PowerDNS > to lock up waiting for new data. Addressed in 1076. > * Make singlethreaded mode more resilient against errors. > commit 1272. > * DNSSEC records were part of 2.9.21, but were not actually > hooked up. Please note that while PowerDNS can serve most > DNSSEC records, it does not do DNSSEC processing. > Implemented in 1046. > * Shawn Starr migrated all his domains to PowerDNS in one > evening, from an installation that had been used since > BIND4. In doing so, he found 3 bugs in as many hours. An IN > statement in the BIND named.conf with a zone with a > trailing dot was misparsed, fixed in commit 1233. Secondly, > the zonefile parser tripped over a line consisting of > nothing but comments in the wrong place. Finally '$ORIGIN > .' was misparsed. Last two issues fixed in commit 1234. > * Our statistics counters did not wrap correctly after the > 2.15 billion mark. Spotted by Stefan Schmidt, reported in > ticket 179, fixed in commit 1284. > * Bindbackend could sometimes generate very strange error > messages while processing a malformed zone file. Sometimes > such error messages could cause a crash (reported on > HP-UX). Addressed by commit 1279. This could not be > triggered remotely. Closes ticket ticket 203. > * Pipe backend did not clean up killed coprocesses. Found and > fixed by Daniel Drown > * Installations with tens of thousands of slave domains would > never complete the cycle to check the freshness of all > zones as each incoming notification disrupted this cycle. > Addressed in cooperation with Tyler Hall of EditDNS. > > Improvements: > > * Zoneparser improvements mean $TTL and $INCLUDES now work a > lot better. Implemented in 1056, 1062. > * Direct queries for 'fancy records' would lead to errors, > such queries now fail early. Spotted by Jorn Ekkelenkamp, > implemented in 1051. > * Fix typo in geobackend, closing ticket 157, implemented in > 1090. > * Initial work on TSIG support - not done yet. Spurred on by > Marco Davids. > * Embarrassingly, the 'master' configuration setting was not > documented in the list of all settings! > * Norbert has updated OpenDBX so that SQLite reads and writes > no longer deadlock, plus compliation fixes on Solaris, plus > the addition of autoserials to backends that support > triggers. Implemented in commit 1154. > * Random generator is now based on AES, improving the > security of certain proxy operations. This is the same > random generator that is in the recursor. Implemented in > commit 1256. > * Documentation for 'supermaster' mode was improved due to > popular demand. > * When binding to a UDP port failed, supply a more precise > error message (commit 1245) > * The zoneparser error messages were vastly improved, > partially inspired by Shawn's cowboy migration. Code in > commit 1235. > * Labels are compressed more efficiently > (case-insensitively), leading to smaller packets. > Implemented in commit 1156. > * Fix handling of TCP timeouts to not cause a reload of the > backends. Implemented in commit 1092. > * TCP Receiver no longer spams the log with common network > errors. Implemented in commit 1306. > * Move from select() to poll()-based multiplexing, allowing > PowerDNS to listen on more than 1024 sockets > simultaneously. One big PowerDNS user needs this. > Implemented in 1072. > * Zone2sql now reads source files in performance enhancing > inode order. Additionally, zone2sql no longer dies on a > missing zone file if --on-error-resume-next was specified. > Finally, statistics of zone2sql confersion have been > improved. Implemented in 1055. > * Address issues found by more recent g++ versions. Spotted > and/or fixed by Jorn Ekkelenkamp (commit 1051), Marcus > Rueckert (commit 1094), Norbert Sendetzky (commit 1107), > Serge Belyshev (commit 1171). > * The Intel C Compiler implements certain things differently, > causing the master/slave communicator to malfunction. > Spotted by Marcus Rueckert, implemented in 1052, plus > fallout in 1105. > * PowerDNS can now be compiled with Boost 1.37.0. > * Andre Lorbach of Adiscon discovered the microsoft windows > 2003 nameserver adds out of zone data to zonetransfers, > which we need to ignore, instead of rejecting the entire > zone. Implemented in 1048. > * PowerDNS now skips remote master servers which consistently > generate timeout messages, improving the master checking > cycle time tremendously. Developed in cooperation with > Tyler Hall. Implemented in commit 1278. > * When binding to a UDP port failed, supply a more precise > error message (commit 1245) > * dnsreplay now waits for the final answers to arrive, making > it possible to process even small pcap files and get > meaningful statistics. commit 1268. > * dnsreplay has a more sane default timeout now, which can be > configured too. Suggested by Augie Schwer in ticket 163, > implemented in commit 1287. > > > > -- > 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 >
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