OpenDNSSEC was created as an open-source turn-key solution for DNSSEC. It secures zone data just before it is published in an authoritative name server.

More information can be found at the project website available at http://www.opendnssec.org/ and on the development WIKI at http://wiki.opendnssec.org/.

Information about announcements, bug reporting and mailing lists can be found at http://www.opendnssec.org/support/.

OpenDNSSEC depends on a number of external packages:

• libxml2 (including xmllint)
• LDNS
• SQLite3

To run OpenDNSSEC, one must have at least one crypto module providing a PKCS#11 library, e.g. SoftHSM (http://www.opendnssec.org/softHSM)

When building from the source code repository, the following dependencies are also needed:

• A Java runtime environment (JRE/JDK)

If the code is downloaded directly from the source code repository (git), you have to prepare the configuration scripts before continuing with build:

1. Install automake, autoconf and libtool.
2. Run the command autogen.sh to build configure scripts etc.