How To Install pdns on Fedora 34

pdns is A modern, advanced and high performance authoritative-only nameserver

Introduction

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

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

Install pdns 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 pdns using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pdns

Install pdns 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 pdns using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pdns

How To Uninstall pdns on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove pdns

pdns Package Contents on Fedora 34

/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/07
/usr/lib/.build-id/07/58bf81accf3c0c1afcbef85e2fe1eaf40059b8
/usr/lib/.build-id/23
/usr/lib/.build-id/23/134455539bebf79e7572d7ce7fc151ee98d522
/usr/lib/.build-id/67
/usr/lib/.build-id/67/a35e3e1851cca917813ce6690d5d1277be07a1
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8/dcea998722540dcaaa0048a5977b2572311c68
/usr/lib/.build-id/c1
/usr/lib/.build-id/c1/8c67c46685a888f93a5cbc238315ef27a2718f
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb/cd4392c2f73997f421e9cf4f43394761cab81e
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0/9486248296211c9a8d90dab2138a668e9684f7
/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 Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.