How To Install tinydyndns on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is tinydyndns

tinydyndns is:

tinydyndns is a simple but powerful dynamic DNS solution that uses djbdns. It cooperates with the djbdns package to publish dynamic IP addresses authenticated through POP connections. On successfully authenticated POP connections, the tinydyndns-update program manipulates tinydns’ constant database “data.cdb” directly without rebuilding it; this makes the dynamic DNS solution use very few system resources.

Using a POP service for authentication saves the work for installing special client software, since POP clients are available for every common network-aware operating system. To provide the DNS and POP services, tinydyndns cooperates with djbdns, mailfront, and cvm.

The POP service can easily be replaced with other services that provide authentication, such as APOP, IMAPS, …

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install tinydyndns

Install tinydyndns Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tinydyndns

Install tinydyndns 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 tinydyndns using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tinydyndns

How To Uninstall tinydyndns on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tinydyndns

Uninstall tinydyndns And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tinydyndns

Remove tinydyndns Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge tinydyndns

Remove tinydyndns configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tinydyndns

Dependencies

tinydyndns have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• tinydyndns website

Summary

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