https://github.com/NLnetLabs/ldns

LDNS is a DNS library that facilitates DNS tool programming
https://github.com/NLnetLabs/ldns

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LDNS is a DNS library that facilitates DNS tool programming

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/NLnetLabs/ldns
• Owner: NLnetLabs
• License: bsd-3-clause
• Created: 2016-11-03T11:57:12.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: develop
• Last Pushed: 2024-07-20T05:12:48.000Z (about 2 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-25T02:42:57.621Z (about 2 months ago)
• Topics: dns, dnssec
• Language: C
• Homepage: https://nlnetlabs.nl/ldns
• Size: 8.56 MB
• Stars: 289
• Watchers: 19
• Forks: 94
• Open Issues: 52
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README
  • Changelog: Changelog
  • Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        

Contents: 

	REQUIREMENTS

	INSTALLATION

		libdns

		examples

		drill

	INFORMATION FOR SPECIFIC OPERATING SYSTEMS

		Mac OS X

		Solaris

	KNOWN ISSUES

		pyldns

        Your Support

Project page:

http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/ldns/

On that page you can also subscribe to the ldns mailing list.

* Development 

ldns is mainly developed on Linux and FreeBSD. It is regularly tested to

compile on other systems like Solaris and Mac OS X.

REQUIREMENTS

- OpenSSL (Optional, but needed for features like DNSSEC)

  - OpenSSL >= 0.9.7f for DANE support

  - OpenSSL >= 1.0.0  for ECDSA and GOST support

- libpcap (Optional, but needed for examples/ldns-dpa)

- (GNU) libtool (in OSX, that's glibtool, not libtool)

- GNU make

INSTALLATION

1. Unpack the tarball

2. cd ldns-

3. ./configure --with-examples --with-drill

   (optionally compile python bindings too with: --with-pyldns)

4. make

5. make install

* Building from repository

If you are building from the repository you will need to have (gnu)

autotools like libtool and autoreconf installed. A list of all the commands

needed to build everything can be found in README.git. Note that the actual

commands may be a little bit different on your machine. Most notably, you'll

need to run libtoolize (or glibtoolize). If you skip this step, you'll get

an error about missing config.sub.

* Developers

ldns is developed by the ldns team at NLnet Labs. This team currently

consists of:

  o Willem Toorop

  o Wouter Wijngaards

Former main developers:

  o Jelte Jansen

  o Miek Gieben

  o Matthijs Mekking

* Credits

We have received patches from the following people, thanks!

  o Bedrich Kosata

  o Erik Rozendaal

  o Håkan Olsson

  o Jakob Schlyter

  o Paul Wouters

  o Simon Vallet

  o Ondřej Surý

  o Karel Slany

  o Havard Eidnes

  o Leo Baltus

  o Dag-Erling Smørgrav

  o Felipe Gasper

INFORMATION FOR SPECIFIC OPERATING SYSTEMS

MAC OS X

For MACOSX 10.4 and later, it seems that you have to set the

MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable to 10.4 before running

make. Apparently it defaults to 10.1.

This appears to be a known problem in 10.2 to 10.4, see:

http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1233.html

for more information.

SOLARIS

In Solaris multi-architecture systems (which have both 32-bit and

64-bit support), it can be a bit taxing to convince the system to

compile in 64-bit mode. Jakob Schlyter has kindly contributed a build

script that sets the right build and link options. You can find it in

contrib/build-solaris.sh

KNOWN ISSUES

A complete list of currently known open issues can be found here:

https://github.com/NLnetLabs/ldns/issues

* pyldns

Compiling pyldns produces many ``unused parameter'' warnings.  Those are

harmless and may safely be ignored.

Also, when building with SWIG older than 2.0.4, compiling

pyldns produces many ``missing initializer'' warnings. Those are harmless

too.