How To Install bind-chroot on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install bind-chroot on CentOS 7. bind-chroot is A chroot runtime environment for the ISC BIND DNS server, named(8)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bind-chroot on CentOS 7.

What is bind-chroot

This package contains a tree of files which can be used as a chroot(2) jail for the named(8) program from the BIND package. Based on the code from Jan “Yenya” Kasprzak kas@fi.muni.cz

We can use yum or dnf to install bind-chroot on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bind-chroot.

Install bind-chroot on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install bind-chroot using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bind-chroot

Install bind-chroot on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install bind-chroot using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bind-chroot

How To Uninstall bind-chroot on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the bind-chroot package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove bind-chroot

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bind-chroot on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.