Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bind9-dnsutils on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is bind9-dnsutils
bind9-dnsutils 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 delivers various client programs related to DNS that are
derived from the BIND 9 source tree.
- dig – query the DNS in various ways
- nslookup – the older way to do it
- nsupdate – perform dynamic updates (See RFC2136)
Task: standard
Package: bind9-dnsutils
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:9.16.1-0ubuntu2
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: standard
Section: net
Source: bind9
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected]
Original-Maintainer: Debian DNS Team [email protected]
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 489
Provides: dnsutils
Depends: bind9-host | host, bind9-libs (= 1:9.16.1-0ubuntu2), libc6 (>= 2.4), libedit2 (>= 2.11-20080614-0), libidn2-0 (>= 2.0.0), libkrb5-3 (>= 1.6.dfsg.2), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0)
Conflicts: bind-dnsutils (« 1:9.13.6~), dnsutils (« 1:9.13.6~)
Breaks: bind-dnsutils (« 1:9.13.6~), dnsutils (« 1:9.13.6~)
Filename: pool/main/b/bind9/bind9-dnsutils_9.16.1-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb
Size: 134176
MD5sum: 60f4cb95390e32dc54558b82be36d4de
SHA1: c455b80fe6d025a351e93d449b63393d6c3b8e84
SHA256: 52b04d13d2a9b9b93798a042f160e8afd6f087ad99474565e0ff3e639f1bf5d4
Homepage: https://www.isc.org/downloads/bind/
Description-en: Clients provided with BIND 9
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 delivers various client programs related to DNS that are
derived from the BIND 9 source tree.
- dig – query the DNS in various ways
- nslookup – the older way to do it
- nsupdate – perform dynamic updates (See RFC2136)
Task: standard
There are three methods to install bind9-dnsutils 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-dnsutils 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-dnsutils using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bind9-dnsutils
Install bind9-dnsutils Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bind9-dnsutils using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bind9-dnsutils
Install bind9-dnsutils 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-dnsutils using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bind9-dnsutils
How To Uninstall bind9-dnsutils on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the bind9-dnsutils package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bind9-dnsutils
Uninstall bind9-dnsutils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bind9-dnsutils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bind9-dnsutils
Remove bind9-dnsutils Configurations and Data
To remove bind9-dnsutils configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bind9-dnsutils
Remove bind9-dnsutils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bind9-dnsutils configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bind9-dnsutils
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bind9-dnsutils package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
