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Back from Egypt, Big PowerDNS deployments

Posted by bert hubert Thu, 08 Jun 2006 21:33:00 GMT

Ok, I’m back from Egypt. Had a stellar time, if you have a group that wants to travel to Egypt, drop me a line, the people that organized this for us are very good.

We’ve visited the pyramids, the sphinx, the egyptian museum (all in Cairo), the unfinished obelisk, Philae, the high dam (all in Aswan), Kom Ombo, Edfu (en route to Luxor), valley of the kings and Karnak (in Luxor). All very impressive.

While I was away, PowerDNS 3.1.1 has held up well, although some minor bugs are now known about. Most of these involve the new zone forwarding, and authoritative zone hosting features, which are not in wide use.

Each consecutive PowerDNS recursor release has attracted the attention of larger internet providers, but we’ve reached the end of the line now. There are none bigger than those trialling PowerDNS now. Additionally, the previous weeks have seen actual deployment to over ten million internet users.

This is a very humbling thought. The PowerDNS company and I have worked very hard at making PowerDNS the most secure, simple and capable recursor out there. In the brief time since XS4ALL funded us to add the features a modern ISP needs, the takeup has been tremendous.

It is good to be back!