How To Install bind9-dnsutils on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bind9-dnsutils
on Kali Linux.
What is bind9-dnsutils
bind9-dnsutils is:
The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND 9) implements an Internet domain name server. BIND 9 is the most widely-used name server software on the Internet, and is supported by the Internet Software Consortium, www.isc.org.
This package delivers various client programs related to DNS that are derived from the BIND 9 source tree.
- dig - query the DNS in various ways
- nslookup - the older way to do it
- nsupdate - perform dynamic updates (See RFC2136)
There are three methods to install bind9-dnsutils
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 bind9-dnsutils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install bind9-dnsutils
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install bind9-dnsutils Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install bind9-dnsutils
using apt
by running the following command:
Install bind9-dnsutils Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install bind9-dnsutils
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall bind9-dnsutils on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the bind9-dnsutils
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall bind9-dnsutils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bind9-dnsutils
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove bind9-dnsutils Configurations and Data
To remove bind9-dnsutils
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove bind9-dnsutils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bind9-dnsutils
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
bind9-dnsutils have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bind9-dnsutils
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.