PowerDNS 2.9.22 released, RFC 5452 assigned!
Posted by bert hubert Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:56:00 GMT
Hi everybody!
What a day! Remco van Mook and I received a message today that our RFC Draft (full text here) has entered the ‘AUTH48’ stage. This means that it has been assigned a number (RFC 5452!), and that barring meteor strikes or similar things, we are now finally done. Yay!
We spent 2 years and 9 months on this. It felt like even more. I’ve been told the draft has already made a difference in some places - from now on, DNS implementations that have certain bad spoofing behaviour MUST clean up their act :-)
In short, had this RFC been followed, the whole Kaminsky DNS scare could have been prevented. Do note that the draft is 2 years older than Kaminksy’s discovery. The DNS community should have listened to Dan Bernstein *10* years ago.
Some more thoughts on this subject can be found here. I’m slightly bitter.
As if the RFC weren’t enough excitement for one day, I also released PowerDNS Authoritative Server 2.9.22, the first release of the authoritative server in almost 20 months. Because of this long delay, a lot of effort was spent field testing this release before it ‘went gold’ (to use an expression I really despise).
I sincerely hope we shook out most of the bugs. The PowerDNS community really delivered, and many of our enthusiastic users deployed pre-release code on their significant installations, to make sure everybody else would be able to upgrade with confidence.
Read the whole store here.
Congrats Bert!
And he keeps on going with www.ENDS-ping.org as the next draft he's working on
sorry, that was a typo, it's: www.EDNS-ping.org