PowerDNS Security Advisory 2026-11 for PowerDNS Authoritative Server, Recursor and dnsdist

[omoerbeek]

https://blog.powerdns.com/2026/08/06/powerdns-security-advisory-2026-11-for-powerdns-authoritative-server-recursor-and-dnsdist

[vecinohk]

@rgacogne

I'd like to point out a bug that occurs after updating dnsdist 2.1.1 on Arch Linux. You're the package maintainer, so please fix this. Thank you

Aug 07 15:12:30 dnsko systemd[1]: Starting DNS Loadbalancer...
Aug 07 15:12:30 dnsko dnsdist[417]: /usr/bin/dnsdist: error while loading shared libraries: liblmdb.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Aug 07 15:12:30 dnsko systemd[1]: dnsdist.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=127/n/a
Aug 07 15:12:30 dnsko systemd[1]: dnsdist.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Aug 07 15:12:30 dnsko systemd[1]: Failed to start DNS Loadbalancer.

Archlinux packages: dnsdist 2.1.1-1

A temporary solution for me:
ln -s /usr/lib/liblmdb.so /usr/lib/liblmdb.so.1

[vecinohk]

fixed: dnsdist 2.1.1-2