How To Install bind-to-tinydns on CentOS 8

bind-to-tinydns is Convert DNS zone files in BIND format to tinydns format

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bind-to-tinydns on CentOS 8.

What is bind-to-tinydns

This is a program that parses zone files used by the BIND DNS server and converts them to the native format of the tinydns component of Dan Bernstein’s djbdns DNS server.

We can use yum or dnf to install bind-to-tinydns on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bind-to-tinydns.

Install bind-to-tinydns on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install bind-to-tinydns using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bind-to-tinydns

Install bind-to-tinydns on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install bind-to-tinydns using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bind-to-tinydns

How To Uninstall bind-to-tinydns on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the bind-to-tinydns package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove bind-to-tinydns

bind-to-tinydns Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/bind-to-tinydns
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/77
/usr/lib/.build-id/77/bd3ff9467bfacff8480f5cfa89fd1bd3896e7b
/usr/share/doc/bind-to-tinydns
/usr/share/doc/bind-to-tinydns/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/bind-to-tinydns/README

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bind-to-tinydns on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.