How To Install bind on CentOS 8

bind is The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) DNS (Domain Name System) server

Introduction

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

What is `bind`

BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is an implementation of the DNS (Domain Name System) protocols. BIND includes a DNS server (named), which resolves host names to IP addresses; a resolver library (routines for applications to use when interfacing with DNS); and tools for verifying that the DNS server is operating properly.

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

Install bind 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 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bind

Install bind 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 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bind

How To Uninstall bind on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove bind

bind Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/logrotate.d/named
/etc/named
/etc/named.conf
/etc/named.rfc1912.zones
/etc/named.root.key
/etc/rndc.conf
/etc/rndc.key
/etc/rwtab.d/named
/etc/sysconfig/named
/run/named
/usr/bin/mdig
/usr/bin/named-rrchecker
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0f
/usr/lib/.build-id/0f/9b8ec74d25c7cc6bc59f2fe8c9d075cb66a6ba
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b/ef476edae4a6e4b11d9e71f9bbd2f03649b998
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae/a8125f21acf127390cb026d33c1ade7d08e0d1
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7/81c28b099170128124d9bd56f02d5da4d8ffd1
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7/81c28b099170128124d9bd56f02d5da4d8ffd1.1
/usr/lib/.build-id/d1
/usr/lib/.build-id/d1/18d258ae504ce40cb63c0f343b6724313468c7
/usr/lib/.build-id/d3
/usr/lib/.build-id/d3/be44507e376ed1faab0be178ac786ef1d0d7e0
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea/801450613c0d68e11c8c067eef780395de15a6
/usr/lib/systemd/system/named-setup-rndc.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/named.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/named.conf
/usr/lib64/bind
/usr/libexec/generate-rndc-key.sh
/usr/sbin/lwresd
/usr/sbin/named
/usr/sbin/named-checkconf
/usr/sbin/named-journalprint
/usr/sbin/rndc
/usr/sbin/rndc-confgen
/usr/share/doc/bind
/usr/share/doc/bind/Bv9ARM.ch01.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/Bv9ARM.ch02.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/Bv9ARM.ch03.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/Bv9ARM.ch04.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/Bv9ARM.ch05.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/Bv9ARM.ch06.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/Bv9ARM.ch07.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/Bv9ARM.ch08.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/Bv9ARM.ch09.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/Bv9ARM.ch10.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/Bv9ARM.ch11.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/Bv9ARM.ch12.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/Bv9ARM.ch13.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/Bv9ARM.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/Bv9ARM.pdf
/usr/share/doc/bind/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/bind/README
/usr/share/doc/bind/isc-logo.pdf
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.arpaname.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.ddns-confgen.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.delv.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.dig.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.dnssec-checkds.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.dnssec-coverage.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.dnssec-dsfromkey.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.dnssec-importkey.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.dnssec-keyfromlabel.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.dnssec-keygen.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.dnssec-keymgr.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.dnssec-revoke.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.dnssec-settime.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.dnssec-signzone.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.dnssec-verify.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.dnstap-read.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.genrandom.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.host.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.isc-hmac-fixup.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.lwresd.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.mdig.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.named-checkconf.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.named-checkzone.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.named-journalprint.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.named-nzd2nzf.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.named-rrchecker.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.named.conf.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.named.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.nsec3hash.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.nslookup.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.nsupdate.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.pkcs11-destroy.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.pkcs11-keygen.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.pkcs11-list.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.pkcs11-tokens.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.rndc-confgen.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.rndc.conf.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.rndc.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/named.conf.default
/usr/share/doc/bind/notes.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/notes.pdf
/usr/share/doc/bind/sample
/usr/share/doc/bind/sample/etc
/usr/share/doc/bind/sample/etc/named.conf
/usr/share/doc/bind/sample/etc/named.rfc1912.zones
/usr/share/doc/bind/sample/var
/usr/share/doc/bind/sample/var/named
/usr/share/doc/bind/sample/var/named/data
/usr/share/doc/bind/sample/var/named/my.external.zone.db
/usr/share/doc/bind/sample/var/named/my.internal.zone.db
/usr/share/doc/bind/sample/var/named/named.ca
/usr/share/doc/bind/sample/var/named/named.empty
/usr/share/doc/bind/sample/var/named/named.localhost
/usr/share/doc/bind/sample/var/named/named.loopback
/usr/share/doc/bind/sample/var/named/slaves
/usr/share/doc/bind/sample/var/named/slaves/my.ddns.internal.zone.db
/usr/share/doc/bind/sample/var/named/slaves/my.slave.internal.zone.db
/usr/share/man/man1/mdig.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/named-rrchecker.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/named.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/rndc.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/lwresd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/named-checkconf.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/named-journalprint.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/named.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/rndc-confgen.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/rndc.8.gz
/var/log/named.log
/var/named
/var/named/data
/var/named/dynamic
/var/named/named.ca
/var/named/named.empty
/var/named/named.localhost
/var/named/named.loopback
/var/named/slaves
/etc/logrotate.d/named
/etc/named
/etc/named.conf
/etc/named.rfc1912.zones
/etc/named.root.key
/etc/rndc.conf
/etc/rndc.key
/etc/rwtab.d/named
/etc/sysconfig/named
/run/named
/usr/bin/mdig
/usr/bin/named-rrchecker
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1f
/usr/lib/.build-id/1f/f81d0e9b4152e7d5058d67c6f94dd431ecda8d
/usr/lib/.build-id/72
/usr/lib/.build-id/72/89aee2fad45eb6d6588f796affc6fa956c2085
/usr/lib/.build-id/76
/usr/lib/.build-id/76/f8f94e5b77d3f6bdf0ed6c2f43fc991e87af5a
/usr/lib/.build-id/b3
/usr/lib/.build-id/b3/ee86436109ce7a76e722b8e1d054db97f1fbd4
/usr/lib/.build-id/bb
/usr/lib/.build-id/bb/dddd4fa86441ad81aa5b4524aafc3fddf09e5a
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf/24c0cf5cc282d5f72d23c53d0d5cb912953bdf
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc/770c015785624544065c378ac7cdfefddba554
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc/770c015785624544065c378ac7cdfefddba554.1
/usr/lib/systemd/system/named-setup-rndc.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/named.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/named.conf
/usr/lib64/bind
/usr/libexec/generate-rndc-key.sh
/usr/sbin/lwresd
/usr/sbin/named
/usr/sbin/named-checkconf
/usr/sbin/named-journalprint
/usr/sbin/rndc
/usr/sbin/rndc-confgen
/usr/share/doc/bind
/usr/share/doc/bind/Bv9ARM.ch01.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/Bv9ARM.ch02.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/Bv9ARM.ch03.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/Bv9ARM.ch04.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/Bv9ARM.ch05.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/Bv9ARM.ch06.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/Bv9ARM.ch07.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/Bv9ARM.ch08.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/Bv9ARM.ch09.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/Bv9ARM.ch10.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/Bv9ARM.ch11.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/Bv9ARM.ch12.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/Bv9ARM.ch13.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/Bv9ARM.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/Bv9ARM.pdf
/usr/share/doc/bind/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/bind/README
/usr/share/doc/bind/isc-logo.pdf
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.arpaname.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.ddns-confgen.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.delv.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.dig.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.dnssec-checkds.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.dnssec-coverage.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.dnssec-dsfromkey.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.dnssec-importkey.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.dnssec-keyfromlabel.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.dnssec-keygen.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.dnssec-keymgr.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.dnssec-revoke.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.dnssec-settime.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.dnssec-signzone.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.dnssec-verify.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.dnstap-read.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.genrandom.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.host.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.isc-hmac-fixup.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.lwresd.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.mdig.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.named-checkconf.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.named-checkzone.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.named-journalprint.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.named-nzd2nzf.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.named-rrchecker.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.named.conf.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.named.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.nsec3hash.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.nslookup.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.nsupdate.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.pkcs11-destroy.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.pkcs11-keygen.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.pkcs11-list.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.pkcs11-tokens.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.rndc-confgen.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.rndc.conf.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/man.rndc.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/named.conf.default
/usr/share/doc/bind/notes.html
/usr/share/doc/bind/notes.pdf
/usr/share/doc/bind/sample
/usr/share/doc/bind/sample/etc
/usr/share/doc/bind/sample/etc/named.conf
/usr/share/doc/bind/sample/etc/named.rfc1912.zones
/usr/share/doc/bind/sample/var
/usr/share/doc/bind/sample/var/named
/usr/share/doc/bind/sample/var/named/data
/usr/share/doc/bind/sample/var/named/my.external.zone.db
/usr/share/doc/bind/sample/var/named/my.internal.zone.db
/usr/share/doc/bind/sample/var/named/named.ca
/usr/share/doc/bind/sample/var/named/named.empty
/usr/share/doc/bind/sample/var/named/named.localhost
/usr/share/doc/bind/sample/var/named/named.loopback
/usr/share/doc/bind/sample/var/named/slaves
/usr/share/doc/bind/sample/var/named/slaves/my.ddns.internal.zone.db
/usr/share/doc/bind/sample/var/named/slaves/my.slave.internal.zone.db
/usr/share/man/man1/mdig.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/named-rrchecker.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/named.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/rndc.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/lwresd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/named-checkconf.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/named-journalprint.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/named.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/rndc-confgen.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/rndc.8.gz
/var/log/named.log
/var/named
/var/named/data
/var/named/dynamic
/var/named/named.ca
/var/named/named.empty
/var/named/named.localhost
/var/named/named.loopback
/var/named/slaves

References

bind website

Summary

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