How to Install and Uninstall all-knowing-dns Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: December 23,2024

1. Install "all-knowing-dns" package

This tutorial shows how to install all-knowing-dns on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                all-knowing-dns
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "all-knowing-dns" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall all-knowing-dns on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                all-knowing-dns
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the all-knowing-dns package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: all-knowing-dns
Priority: optional
Section: universe/perl
Installed-Size: 108
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Perl Group
Architecture: all
Version: 1.7-1
Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.11), perl, libmouse-perl, libmousex-nativetraits-perl, libnet-dns-perl, libnetaddr-ip-perl, libprivileges-drop-perl
Filename: pool/universe/a/all-knowing-dns/all-knowing-dns_1.7-1_all.deb
Size: 23144
MD5sum: b6017ea7680bd2897e8bb96800cc4b96
SHA1: 9362ba6047ee5959c21022cc3abb508b368f2caa
SHA256: fe9d77a4f2218c45c193bde608d9f6dc5aa0fb400a69d039e5e1a68dbb71bc75
Description-en: tiny DNS server for IPv6 Reverse DNS
AllKnowingDNS provides reverse DNS for IPv6 networks which use SLAAC
(autoconf), e.g. for a /64 network.
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The problem with IPv6 reverse DNS and traditional nameservers is that the
nameserver requires you to provide a zone file. Assuming you want to provide
RDNS for a /64 network, you have 2**64 = 18446744073709551616 different usable
IP addresses (a little less if you are using SLAAC). Providing a zone file for
that, even in a very terse notation, would consume a huge amount of disk space
and could not possibly be held in the memory of the computers available
nowadays.
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AllKnowingDNS instead generates PTR and AAAA records on the fly. You only
configure which network you want to serve and what your entries should look
like.
Description-md5: 1df6f6c08cc7056f9106168642d482b9
Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/AllKnowingDNS/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu