How To Install dnsdist on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dnsdist on Fedora 34.
What is dnsdist
dnsdist is a highly DNS-, DoS- and abuse-aware loadbalancer. Its goal in life is to route traffic to the best server, delivering top performance to legitimate users while shunting or blocking abusive traffic.
We can use yum or dnf to install dnsdist on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dnsdist.
Install dnsdist on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install dnsdist using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dnsdist
Install dnsdist on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install dnsdist using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dnsdist
How To Uninstall dnsdist on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the dnsdist package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dnsdist
dnsdist Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/dnsdist
/usr/bin/dnsdist
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b/6b9f6c9f7ff0c2a125b299d327e8fcb01db2a9
/usr/lib/systemd/system/dnsdist.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/share/doc/dnsdist
/usr/share/doc/dnsdist/README.md
/usr/share/doc/dnsdist/dnsdist.conf.sample
/usr/share/licenses/dnsdist
/usr/share/licenses/dnsdist/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/dnsdist.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dnsdist on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
