How To Install bind-to-tinydns on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install bind-to-tinydns on Rocky Linux 8. bind-to-tinydns is Convert DNS zone files in BIND format to tinydns format

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bind-to-tinydns on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `bind-to-tinydns`

This is a program that parses zone files used by the BIND DNS server and converts them to the native format of the tinydns component of Dan Bernstein’s djbdns DNS server.

We can use yum or dnf to install bind-to-tinydns on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bind-to-tinydns.

Install bind-to-tinydns on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install bind-to-tinydns

Install bind-to-tinydns on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install bind-to-tinydns

How To Uninstall bind-to-tinydns on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove bind-to-tinydns

bind-to-tinydns Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/bind-to-tinydns
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/77
/usr/lib/.build-id/77/bd3ff9467bfacff8480f5cfa89fd1bd3896e7b
/usr/share/doc/bind-to-tinydns
/usr/share/doc/bind-to-tinydns/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/bind-to-tinydns/README

References

bind-to-tinydns website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bind-to-tinydns on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.