How To Install bind9 on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install bind9 on Ubuntu 20.04. bind9 is Internet Domain Name Server Internet Domain Name Server

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bind9 on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is bind9

bind9 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 provides the server and related configuration files. Task: dns-server

Package: bind9 Architecture: amd64 Version: 1:9.16.1-0ubuntu2 Priority: optional Section: net Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian DNS Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 866 Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~) Depends: adduser, bind9-libs (= 1:9.16.1-0ubuntu2), bind9-utils (= 1:9.16.1-0ubuntu2), debconf | debconf-2.0, dns-root-data, lsb-base (>= 3.2-14), iproute2, netbase, libc6 (>= 2.7), libcap2 (>= 1:2.10), libjson-c4 (>= 0.13.1), liblmdb0 (>= 0.9.7), libmaxminddb0 (>= 1.3.0), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4) Suggests: bind-doc, dnsutils, resolvconf, ufw Breaks: bind (« 1:9.13.6~) Replaces: bind (« 1:9.13.6~) Filename: pool/main/b/bind9/bind9_9.16.1-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 232772 MD5sum: 8ebc7a5761cfd611f39d5b5eaf8f137e SHA1: da5472c5ea24d8eb428f25bcfeb5b91885490c17 SHA256: e28a282672fcbc468bdc8680b309a465ccc9283f0b6b43f10d4df3e9860daf81 Homepage: https://www.isc.org/downloads/bind/ Description-en: Internet Domain Name Server 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 provides the server and related configuration files. Task: dns-server

There are three methods to install bind9 on Ubuntu 20.04. 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 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install bind9 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install bind9

Install bind9 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install bind9 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install bind9

Install bind9 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install bind9 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bind9

How To Uninstall bind9 on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the bind9 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove bind9

Uninstall bind9 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall bind9 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bind9

Remove bind9 Configurations and Data

To remove bind9 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge bind9

Remove bind9 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove bind9 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bind9

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bind9 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.