How To Install fpdns on Fedora 34

fpdns is Fingerprint DNS servers

Introduction

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

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

Install fpdns 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 fpdns using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fpdns

Install fpdns 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 fpdns using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fpdns

How To Uninstall fpdns on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove fpdns

fpdns Package Contents on Fedora 34

/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 Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.