How to Install and Uninstall dnsdist Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: May 12,2024

1. Install "dnsdist" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install dnsdist on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                dnsdist
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "dnsdist" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall dnsdist on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                dnsdist
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the dnsdist package on Kali Linux

Package: dnsdist
Version: 1.8.3-2
Installed-Size: 9783
Maintainer: dnsdist packagers
Architecture: amd64
Depends: adduser, libc6 (>= 2.34), libcap2 (>= 1:2.10), libcdb1 (>= 0.76), libedit2 (>= 2.11-20080614-0), libfstrm0 (>= 0.4.0), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), liblmdb0 (>= 0.9.7), libluajit-5.1-2 (>= 2.0.4+dfsg) | libluajit2-5.1-2 (>= 2.1~), libnghttp2-14 (>= 1.28.0), libre2-10 (>= 20131024+dfsg), libsnmp40 (>= 5.9.4+dfsg), libsodium23 (>= 1.0.12), libssl3 (>= 3.0.0), libstdc++6 (>= 13.1), libsystemd0
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Size: 2489660
SHA256: 7f5c064c6eb7f6f3c81586ca7b34c9c79c0311355bb84b6302f71b9e2d3d4c1a
SHA1: 0cb17c4a8f97dddc2358905bbc0b4512622d9cf1
MD5sum: eb06f6722e4992ccdf5e6b55dab57246
Description: DNS loadbalancer
Highly DoS- and abuse-aware load balancing tool for DNS traffic,
with Lua scripting and configuration capability.
Can be configured to use various sets of rules to classify, route
and reject traffic.
Description-md5:
Homepage: https://dnsdist.org
Tag: uitoolkit::ncurses
Section: net
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/d/dnsdist/dnsdist_1.8.3-2_amd64.deb