How To Install iodine on Fedora 34

iodine is Solution to tunnel IPv4 data through a DNS server

Introduction

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

What is iodine

iodine lets you tunnel IPv4 data through a DNS server. This can be usable in different situations where internet access is firewalled, but DNS queries are allowed. It runs on Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Windows and needs a TUN/TAP device. The bandwidth is asymmetrical with limited upstream and up to 1 Mbit/s downstream. This is meta-package to install both client and server. It also contain three documantation files

We can use yum or dnf to install iodine on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install iodine.

Install iodine 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 iodine using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install iodine

Install iodine 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 iodine using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install iodine

How To Uninstall iodine on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove iodine

iodine Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/share/doc/iodine
/usr/share/doc/iodine/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/iodine/README
/usr/share/doc/iodine/TODO

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install iodine on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.