dns/nsd 4.15.3 FreeBSD

Authoritative only non-recursive name server

System: FreeBSD
Repository: FreeBSD ports
Maintainer: [email protected]
Last update: 2026-10-15
Commit: ba6fa0984b
License: BSD3CLAUSE
Categories: dns
Package size: 623.8 KiB, 3662.4 KiB installed

Description

NSD (Name Server Daemon) is a complete implementation of an authoritative DNS nameserver.

In the other systems

System

Port

Version

FreeBSD

dns/nsd

4.15.3

NetBSD

net/nsd

4.15.2

Install

Binary package:

pkg install nsd

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/dns/nsd/ && make install clean

To depend on this port in another port's Makefile:

RUN_DEPENDS=	nsd>0:dns/nsd

Packages

The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.

Repository

aarch64

amd64

armv6

armv7

i386

FreeBSD:14:latest

4.15.2

4.6.1

4.12.0_1

4.15.3

FreeBSD:14:quarterly

4.15.2

4.15.3

n/a

4.12.0_1

4.15.3

FreeBSD:15:latest

4.15.2

4.15.3

n/a

4.12.0_1

FreeBSD:15:quarterly

4.15.2

n/a

FreeBSD:16:latest

4.15.2

4.15.3

n/a

FreeBSD:16:quarterly

n/a

Dependencies

As this port's Makefile names them.

Library 1

libevent.so : devel/libevent

The full lists below include those, and their dependencies in turn.

Build dependencies 7

Run dependencies 6

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

Options name: dns_nsd

Option

Default

Description

BIND8_STATS

BIND8-like NSTATS & XSTATS

CHECKING

off

Internal run-time checks

DNSTAP

Enable dnstap logging support

DOCS

off

Build and/or install documentation

IPV6

off

IPv6 protocol support

LARGEFILE

Largefile support

MINRESPSIZE

Minimial response sizing

MMAP

off

Use mmap instead of malloc (experimental)

MUNIN_PLUGIN

off

Install Munin plugin (requires BIND8_STATS)

NSEC3

NSEC3 support

PACKED

off

Enable packed structures for reduced memory use

RADIXTREE

Enabled: more (15%) memory use but less CPU cycles

RRL

Response Rate Limiting

ZONE_STATS

Separate statistics for each zone

USES: cpe pkgconfig ssl
Service scripts: nsd

Message after installing

To run nsd from startup, add nsd_enable="YES" to your etc/rc.conf

   Starting with nsd version 4 the old nsdc control program has been
   replaced by nsd-control. This requires some manual setup with
   nsd-control-setup and editing of the config files.

   nsd-control is incompatible with nsdc so when that is used in scripts,
   these should be adapted

Files

Manual pages 5

nsd(8)
nsd-checkconf(8)
nsd-checkzone(8)
nsd-control(8)
nsd.conf(5)

pkg-plist 15

@sample etc/nsd/nsd.conf.sample
share/man/man5/nsd.conf.5.gz
share/man/man8/nsd-checkconf.8.gz
share/man/man8/nsd-checkzone.8.gz
share/man/man8/nsd-control.8.gz
share/man/man8/nsd.8.gz
sbin/nsd
sbin/nsd-checkconf
sbin/nsd-checkzone
sbin/nsd-control
sbin/nsd-control-setup
share/munin/plugins/nsd_munin_
@dir(,,0755)
@dir(,,0755) /var/db/
@postexec chown -R : /var/db/

distinfo 1

File

Size

SHA256

nsd-4.15.3.tar.gz

1.620092e+06

6cd323354ebdf8c6a1eb5a14ecce25c69534013b70e7b0197d915cd581ab530c

Master sites 1

https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/nsd/

Commit history 4

Date Commit Credits Log message

2026-10-15

ba6fa0984b

Jaap Akkerhuis

dns/nsd: Security update 4.15.2 => 4.15.3

Release Notes: https://community.nlnetlabs.nl/t/nsd-4-15-3-security-release/3490 PR: 299412 Approved by: osa, vvd (Mentors, implicit) Security: CVE-2026-101337 Security: CVE-2026-101338 Security: CVE-2026-101339 Security: CVE-2026-101341 MFH: 2026Q4

2026-09-03

e5b6b785df

Jaap Akkerhuis

dns/nsd: Update 4.15.1 => 4.15.2

Release Notes: https://community.nlnetlabs.nl/t/nsd-4-15-2-released/3451 PR: 298140 Reported by: Jaap Akkerhuis <[email protected]> (maintainer) Approved by: osa, vvd (Mentors, implicit) MFH: 2026Q3

2026-08-28

db5630c479

Jaap Akkerhuis

dns/nsd: Security update 4.15.0 => 4.15.1

Release Notes: https://community.nlnetlabs.nl/t/nsd-4-15-1-security-release/3447 PR: 297994 Reported by: Jaap Akkerhuis <[email protected]> (maintainer) Approved by: osa, vvd (Mentors, implicit) MFH: 2026Q3

2026-07-08

dd37d0cccb

Jaap Akkerhuis

idns/nsd: Update 4.14.3 => 4.15.0

Release Notes: https://community.nlnetlabs.nl/t/nsd-4-15-0-released/3423/1 PR: 296599 Sponsored by: UNIS Labs MFH: 2026Q2