PowerDNS now polls the security status of a release at startup and
periodically. More detail on this feature, and how to turn it off,
can be found in `Security
- polling <common/security.rst#security-polling>`__.
+ polling <../common/secpoll.rst>`__.
- `commit 5027429 <https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns/commit/5027429>`__:
We did not transmit the right 'local' socket address to Lua for
TCP/IP queries in the recursor. In addition, we would attempt to
PowerDNS Recursor 3.6.0 could crash with a specific sequence of packets.
For more details, see `the
-advisory <security/powerdns-advisory-2014-01.rst>`__. PowerDNS Recursor
+advisory <../security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2014-01.rst>`__. PowerDNS Recursor
3.6.1 was very well tested, and is in full production already, so it
should be a safe upgrade.
**Warning**: Lua scripts from version 3.1.7.\* are fully compatible with
version 3.2. However, scripts written for development snapshot releases,
-are NOT. Please see `Scripting <recursor/scripting.rst>`__ for details!
+are NOT. Please see `Scripting <../lua-scripting/index.rst>`__ for details!
The 3.2 release is the first major release of the PowerDNS Recursor in a
long time. Partly this is because 3.1.7.\* functioned very well, and
DNS modification for those that need it.
For more details about the Lua scripting, which can be modified, loaded
-and unloaded at runtime, see `Scripting <recursor/scripting.rst>`__. Many
+and unloaded at runtime, see `Scripting <../lua-scripting/index.rst>`__. Many
thanks are due to the #lua irc channel, for excellent near-realtime Lua
support. In addition, a number of PowerDNS users have been
enthusiastically testing prereleases of the scripting support, and have
spoofing made harder by using a new network address for each query,
PowerDNS detects when an attempt is made to spoof it, and temporarily
ignores the data. For details, see
- `Anti-spoofing <recursor/security.rst>`__.
+ `Anti-spoofing <../security.rst>`__.
- First nameserver to benefit from epoll/kqueue/Solaris completion
ports event reporting framework, for stellar performance.
- Best statistics of any recursing nameserver we know of, see
- `Statistics <recursor/stats.rst>`__.
+ `Statistics <../metrics.rst>`__.
- Last-recently-used based cache cleanup algorithm, keeping the 'best'
records in memory
- First class Solaris support, built on a 'try and buy' Sun CoolThreads
- Full IPv6 support, implemented natively.
- Access filtering, both for IPv4 and IPv6.
- Experimental SMP support for nearly double performance. See `PowerDNS
- Recursor performance <recursor/performance.rst>`__.
+ Recursor performance <../performance.rst>`__.
Many people helped package and test this release. Jorn Ekkelenkamp of
ISP-Services helped find the '8000 SOAs' bug and spotted many other