How To Install yadifa on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install yadifa on Rocky Linux 8. yadifa is Lightweight authoritative Name Server with DNSSEC capabilities

Introduction

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

What is yadifa

YADIFA is a name server implementation developed from scratch by .eu. It is portable across multiple operating systems and supports DNSSEC, TSIG, DNS notify, DNS update, IPv6.

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

Install yadifa 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 yadifa using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install yadifa

Install yadifa 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 yadifa using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install yadifa

How To Uninstall yadifa on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove yadifa

yadifa Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/logrotate.d/yadifa
/etc/yadifad.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/13
/usr/lib/.build-id/13/a4154c3fe5c20c77772dda49596504fb9d5e9a
/usr/lib/systemd/system/yadifad.service
/usr/sbin/yadifad
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/yadifad
/usr/share/doc/yadifa
/usr/share/doc/yadifa/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/yadifa/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/yadifa/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/yadifa/README
/usr/share/doc/yadifa/keys.conf.example
/usr/share/doc/yadifa/yadifa.conf.example
/usr/share/doc/yadifa/yadifad-master.conf.example
/usr/share/doc/yadifa/yadifad-slave.conf.example
/usr/share/doc/yadifa/yadifad.conf.example
/usr/share/licenses/yadifa
/usr/share/licenses/yadifa/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/yadifa.rc.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/yadifad.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/yadifad.8.gz
/var/log/yadifa
/var/zones
/var/zones/keys
/var/zones/masters
/var/zones/masters/0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.ip6.arpa.zone
/var/zones/masters/0.0.127.in-addr.arpa.zone
/var/zones/masters/localhost.zone
/var/zones/masters/localhost6.zone
/var/zones/masters/somedomain.eu.zone
/var/zones/slaves
/var/zones/xfr

References

Summary

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