How To Install pdns on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pdns on CentOS 8.
What is pdns
The PowerDNS Nameserver is a modern, advanced and high performance authoritative-only nameserver. It is written from scratch and conforms to all relevant DNS standards documents. Furthermore, PowerDNS interfaces with almost any database.
We can use yum or dnf to install pdns on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pdns.
Install pdns 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 pdns using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install pdns
Install pdns 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 pdns using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install pdns
How To Uninstall pdns on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the pdns package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove pdns
pdns Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/pdns
/etc/pdns/pdns.conf
/usr/bin/pdns_control
/usr/bin/pdns_zone2ldap
/usr/bin/pdnsutil
/usr/bin/zone2json
/usr/bin/zone2sql
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/75
/usr/lib/.build-id/75/9bedc4eba116e41501f580fcf2a240c44644a9
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b/5ef109d24eb08bc528f15bd4690e2022d56d97
/usr/lib/.build-id/84
/usr/lib/.build-id/84/043ebc578ee1a68fb77436ee27b7086704bbb6
/usr/lib/.build-id/a7
/usr/lib/.build-id/a7/4206c93c3ae4bed50308047e6e1ff30f55de99
/usr/lib/.build-id/e5
/usr/lib/.build-id/e5/9608b647e76cda8505d6e44d76140c45a27e84
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8/2d82649c1a1e88e815ccdab1af540b82ea653a
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb/e7f1e1c09e35e0f4e19c0305b30db2148bee6b
/usr/lib/systemd/system/pdns.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/lib64/pdns
/usr/lib64/pdns/libbindbackend.so
/usr/sbin/pdns_server
/usr/share/doc/pdns
/usr/share/doc/pdns/README
/usr/share/licenses/pdns
/usr/share/licenses/pdns/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/pdns_control.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pdns_server.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pdns_zone2ldap.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pdnsutil.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/zone2json.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/zone2sql.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pdns on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.