The NLnet Labs Name Server Daemon (NSD) is an authoritative DNS name server. It has been developed for operations in environments where speed, reliability, stability and security are of high importance. If you have any feedback, we would love to hear from you. Don’t hesitate to create an issue on Github or post a message on the NSD mailing list. You can learn more about NSD by reading our documentation.
Make sure you have the following installed:
- C toolchain (the set of tools to compile C such as a compiler, linker, and assembler)
- OpenSSL, with its include files (usually these are included in the "dev" version of the library)
- libevent, with its include files (usually these are included in the "dev" version of the library)
- flex
- bison
When building from Git, the configure
script and simdzone
sources are missing, use the following commands to get started (note that the
configure
script and sources are included in release tarballs and do not
need to be generated/downloaded):
$ git submodule update --init
$ autoreconf -fi
autoreconf
should install the required auxiliary files (e.g.config.sub
andconfig.guess
). Older versions ofautoreconf
may not do so, try runninglibtoolize -fi -c
first in that case.
Compile and install using:
$ ./configure && make && make install
The configuration options for NSD are described in the man pages, which are
installed (use man nsd.conf
) and are available on the NSD
documentation page.
An example configuration file is located in nsd.conf.sample.