How To Install dnstop on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install dnstop on Rocky Linux 8. dnstop is Displays information about DNS traffic on your network

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dnstop on Rocky Linux 8.

What is dnstop

dnstop is a libpcap application (ala tcpdump) that displays various tables of DNS traffic on your network. dnstop supports both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. To help find especially undesirable DNS queries, dnstop provides a number of filters. dnstop can either read packets from the live capture device, or from a tcpdump savefile.

We can use yum or dnf to install dnstop on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dnstop.

Install dnstop on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install dnstop using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install dnstop

Install dnstop on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install dnstop using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dnstop

How To Uninstall dnstop on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the dnstop package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove dnstop

dnstop Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/dnstop
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/05
/usr/lib/.build-id/05/1088c6daa9ee5089dcede62a11611a338fe149
/usr/share/doc/dnstop
/usr/share/doc/dnstop/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/dnstop/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man8/dnstop.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dnstop on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.