How To Install knot on Fedora 34

knot is High-performance authoritative DNS server

Introduction

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

What is `knot`

Knot DNS is a high-performance authoritative DNS server implementation.

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

Install knot 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 knot using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install knot

Install knot 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 knot using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install knot

How To Uninstall knot on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove knot

knot Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/knot
/etc/knot/knot.conf
/run/knot
/usr/bin/kzonecheck
/usr/bin/kzonesign
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/06
/usr/lib/.build-id/06/38b341dd69221466119cd90ff864862787e5af
/usr/lib/.build-id/1c
/usr/lib/.build-id/1c/2876cebb9a5d71f87d0734abb8daf73f3fe218
/usr/lib/.build-id/56
/usr/lib/.build-id/56/065a1ca8000ab5266b24878649d0728791ed6e
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d/52986e38af67dbd73c1d46e4a7e330ec66a9fa
/usr/lib/.build-id/77
/usr/lib/.build-id/77/63fc39290069998ce7479768dd3080f2138cdf
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a/fddc1b92c947ffc6b9df3af7febbc997f5583a
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9/75bca80781467e84fa69fe843bc03cb6bb3ce0
/usr/lib/systemd/system/knot.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/knot.conf
/usr/lib64/knot
/usr/lib64/knot/modules-3.0
/usr/sbin/kcatalogprint
/usr/sbin/keymgr
/usr/sbin/kjournalprint
/usr/sbin/knotc
/usr/sbin/knotd
/usr/share/doc/knot
/usr/share/doc/knot/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/knot/README.md
/usr/share/doc/knot/samples
/usr/share/doc/knot/samples/example.com.zone
/usr/share/licenses/knot
/usr/share/licenses/knot/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/kzonecheck.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/kzonesign.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/knot.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/kcatalogprint.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/keymgr.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/kjournalprint.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/knotc.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/knotd.8.gz
/var/lib/knot
/etc/knot
/etc/knot/knot.conf
/run/knot
/usr/bin/kzonecheck
/usr/bin/kzonesign
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/13
/usr/lib/.build-id/13/4b6892fdf56147de17fac0c56b78b3ddf61777
/usr/lib/.build-id/2f
/usr/lib/.build-id/2f/b3affb4984d9c2c7c2d9d24c76a70d8e081634
/usr/lib/.build-id/74
/usr/lib/.build-id/74/0350c18b5533fcdc2a4e56038fc202540acbf9
/usr/lib/.build-id/80
/usr/lib/.build-id/80/fc09f2af31fe031db2a7ba4bd0ec702180111c
/usr/lib/.build-id/87
/usr/lib/.build-id/87/b9e926dc351428752a135a5aa7c5082a9fa2c3
/usr/lib/.build-id/b2
/usr/lib/.build-id/b2/487ba103a5e5dc029ab627b63e5a18eecc13ba
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8/6a8d173c7959c07cfb21714216d1babf3c542f
/usr/lib/systemd/system/knot.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/knot.conf
/usr/lib64/knot
/usr/lib64/knot/modules-3.0
/usr/sbin/kcatalogprint
/usr/sbin/keymgr
/usr/sbin/kjournalprint
/usr/sbin/knotc
/usr/sbin/knotd
/usr/share/doc/knot
/usr/share/doc/knot/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/knot/README.md
/usr/share/doc/knot/samples
/usr/share/doc/knot/samples/example.com.zone
/usr/share/licenses/knot
/usr/share/licenses/knot/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/kzonecheck.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/kzonesign.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/knot.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/kcatalogprint.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/keymgr.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/kjournalprint.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/knotc.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/knotd.8.gz
/var/lib/knot

References

knot website

Summary

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