How To Install dnsperf on CentOS 8

dnsperf is Benchmarking authorative and recursing DNS servers

Introduction

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

What is dnsperf

This is dnsperf, a collection of DNS server performance testing tools. For more information, see the dnsperf(1) and resperf(1) man pages.

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

Install dnsperf 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 dnsperf using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install dnsperf

Install dnsperf 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 dnsperf using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dnsperf

How To Uninstall dnsperf on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove dnsperf

dnsperf Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/dnsperf
/usr/bin/resperf
/usr/bin/resperf-report
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4c
/usr/lib/.build-id/4c/c3e19a86905395a5d52919a7892e811da19828
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f/b0f68def0637a0a3476b84ad25ff2734429b17
/usr/share/doc/dnsperf
/usr/share/doc/dnsperf/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/dnsperf/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/dnsperf
/usr/share/licenses/dnsperf/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/dnsperf.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/resperf.1.gz

References

Summary

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