How To Install dnstracer on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install dnstracer on Rocky Linux 8. dnstracer is Trace a DNS record to its start of authority

Introduction

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

What is dnstracer

dnstracer determines where a given Domain Name Server (DNS) gets its information from, and follows the chain of DNS servers back to the servers which know the data.

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

Install dnstracer 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 dnstracer using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install dnstracer

Install dnstracer 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 dnstracer using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dnstracer

How To Uninstall dnstracer on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove dnstracer

dnstracer Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/dnstracer
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/53
/usr/lib/.build-id/53/007d4dd78f8200110663cde7cb2502a2ea555e
/usr/share/doc/dnstracer
/usr/share/doc/dnstracer/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/dnstracer/CONTACT
/usr/share/doc/dnstracer/README
/usr/share/licenses/dnstracer
/usr/share/licenses/dnstracer/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man8/dnstracer.8.gz

References

Summary

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