How To Install dnstracer on CentOS 8

dnstracer is Trace a DNS record to its start of authority

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dnstracer on CentOS 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 CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dnstracer.

Install dnstracer 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 dnstracer using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install dnstracer

Install dnstracer 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 dnstracer using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dnstracer

How To Uninstall dnstracer on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove dnstracer

dnstracer Package Contents on CentOS 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 CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.