How To Install iodine on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install iodine on CentOS 7. iodine is Solution to tunnel IPv4 data through a DNS server

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install iodine on CentOS 7.

What is iodine

iodine lets you tunnel IPv4 data through a DNS server. This can be usable in different situations where internet access is firewalled, but DNS queries are allowed. It runs on Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Windows and needs a TUN/TAP device. The bandwidth is asymmetrical with limited upstream and up to 1 Mbit/s downstream. This is meta-package to install both client and server. It also contain three documantation files TODO.

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

Install iodine on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install iodine using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install iodine

Install iodine 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 iodine using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install iodine

How To Uninstall iodine on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove iodine

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Summary

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