How To Install bind-utils on CentOS 7

Introduction

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

What is bind-utils

Bind-utils contains a collection of utilities for querying DNS (Domain Name System) name servers to find out information about Internet hosts. These tools will provide you with the IP addresses for given host names, as well as other information about registered domains and network addresses. You should install bind-utils if you need to get information from DNS name servers.

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

Install bind-utils 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-utils using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bind-utils

Install bind-utils 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-utils using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bind-utils

How To Uninstall bind-utils on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove bind-utils

References

• bind-utils website

Summary

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