How To Install rawdns on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rawdns on Kali Linux.

What is rawdns

rawdns is:

“rawdns” is a DNS forwarder that allows for DNS requests to return the IP addresses of Docker containers directly.

For example, if one has a container named “app”, then a request for “app.docker” would return the IP address of that container. Likewise, if the “app” container has a linked database container whose alias name is “db”, then a request for “db.app.docker” would return the IP address of the linked database container.

There are three methods to install rawdns 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 rawdns Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install rawdns

Install rawdns Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install rawdns

Install rawdns 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.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install rawdns

How To Uninstall rawdns on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove rawdns

Uninstall rawdns And Its Dependencies

To uninstall rawdns and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove rawdns

Remove rawdns Configurations and Data

To remove rawdns configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge rawdns

Remove rawdns configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rawdns

Dependencies

rawdns have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• rawdns website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install rawdns package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.