BIND and Openssl

In installing BIND latest versions which has DNSSEC inbuilt support, Openssl is a pre-requirement. You can disable openssl by using the option --without opessl but it will disable the DNSSEC support of your DNS server.

When I tried to install the latest bind-9.7.3-P3 from the source, in the compilation stage I got the following error;

checking for OpenSSL... configure error "/usr/bin/openssl/include/openssl/opensslv.h" not found


I checked for openssl and found that it is available at /usr/bin. I tried to update/install openssl using 'yum' but failed with following message
Package openssl-1.0.0b-1.fc13.x86_64 already installed and latest version

Later I found 'opensslv.h' is available with openssl development package and I installed it with the command

yum install openssl-devel

It installed the required libraries for bind and I was able to compile and install bind-9.7.3-P3