How To Install dnsdist on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dnsdist
on CentOS 7.
What is dnsdist
dnsdist is a highly DNS-, DoS- and abuse-aware loadbalancer. Its goal in life is to route traffic to the best server, delivering top performance to legitimate users while shunting or blocking abusive traffic.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install dnsdist
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dnsdist.
Install dnsdist on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install dnsdist
using yum
by running the following command:
Install dnsdist 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.
After updating yum database, We can install dnsdist
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall dnsdist on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the dnsdist
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dnsdist
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.