How To Install all-knowing-dns on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install all-knowing-dns on Kali Linux.
What is all-knowing-dns
AllKnowingDNS provides reverse DNS for IPv6 networks which use SLAAC (autoconf), e.g. for a /64 network.
The problem with IPv6 reverse DNS and traditional nameservers is that the nameserver requires you to provide a zone file. Assuming you want to provide RDNS for a /64 network, you have 2**64 = 18446744073709551616 different usable IP addresses (a little less if you are using SLAAC). Providing a zone file for that, even in a very terse notation, would consume a huge amount of disk space and could not possibly be held in the memory of the computers available nowadays.
AllKnowingDNS instead generates PTR and AAAA records on the fly. You only configure which network you want to serve and what your entries should look like.
There are three ways to install all-knowing-dns on Kali Linux . We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install all-knowing-dns Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install all-knowing-dns using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install all-knowing-dns
Install all-knowing-dns Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install all-knowing-dns using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install all-knowing-dns
Install all-knowing-dns Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install all-knowing-dns using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install all-knowing-dns
How To Uninstall all-knowing-dns on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the all-knowing-dns package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove all-knowing-dns
Uninstall all-knowing-dns And Its Dependencies
To uninstall all-knowing-dns and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove all-knowing-dns
Remove all-knowing-dns Configurations and Data
To remove all-knowing-dns configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge all-knowing-dns
Remove all-knowing-dns configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove all-knowing-dns configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge all-knowing-dns
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install all-knowing-dns using different package management tools like apt, apt-get and aptitude.