How To Install dnstracer on Fedora 34

dnstracer is Trace a DNS record to its start of authority

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dnstracer on Fedora 34.

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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dnstracer.

Install dnstracer on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove dnstracer

dnstracer Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/dnstracer
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa/06fade1ce9da79ec7a584549229341b1414a5b
/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 Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.