How To Install fpdns on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fpdns on CentOS 8.
What is fpdns
fpdns is a program that remotely determines DNS server versions. It does this by sending a series of borderline DNS queries which are compared against a table of responses and server versions.
We can use yum or dnf to install fpdns on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fpdns.
Install fpdns 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 fpdns using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fpdns
Install fpdns 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 fpdns using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fpdns
How To Uninstall fpdns on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the fpdns package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fpdns
fpdns Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/fpdns
/usr/share/doc/fpdns
/usr/share/doc/fpdns/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/fpdns.1.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Net
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Net/DNS
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Net/DNS/Fingerprint.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Net/DNS/REPLACE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fpdns on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.