How to Install and Uninstall bind9-dnsutils Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: May 18,2024

1. Install "bind9-dnsutils" package

This is a short guide on how to install bind9-dnsutils on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                bind9-dnsutils
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "bind9-dnsutils" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall bind9-dnsutils on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                bind9-dnsutils
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the bind9-dnsutils package on Kali Linux

Package: bind9-dnsutils
Source: bind9
Version: 1:9.19.21-1
Installed-Size: 772
Maintainer: Debian DNS Team
Architecture: amd64
Provides: dnsutils
Depends: bind9-host | host, bind9-libs (= 1:9.19.21-1), libc6 (>= 2.34), libedit2 (>= 2.11-20080614-0), libidn2-0 (>= 2.0.0), libkrb5-3 (>= 1.6.dfsg.2), libprotobuf-c1 (>= 1.0.0)
Conflicts: bind-dnsutils (<< 1:9.13.6~), dnsutils (<< 1:9.13.6~)
Breaks: bind-dnsutils (<< 1:9.13.6~), dnsutils (<< 1:9.13.6~)
Size: 422288
SHA256: b900c67b51fc39be11c762f6340471a463e604a1ca91a24ce72773ee19800ed3
SHA1: a192b50a00817cdc47a0f586006a209875d63b4e
MD5sum: 4e53faddd1e4a58bea8a64a3d4d9a509
Description: 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.
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This package delivers various client programs related to DNS that are
derived from the BIND 9 source tree.
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- dig - query the DNS in various ways
- nslookup - the older way to do it
- nsupdate - perform dynamic updates (See RFC2136)
Description-md5:
Homepage: https://www.isc.org/downloads/bind/
Section: net
Priority: standard
Filename: pool/main/b/bind9/bind9-dnsutils_9.19.21-1_amd64.deb