Install nslookup on Linux

In this tutorial, How to install nslookup on Linux. nslookup is part of the bind-utils package. The package bind-utils is not yet installed on Linux, then you type nslookup command not found on Linux.

Install nslookup on Linux

Install nslookup for Centos

[vagrant@DevopsRoles ~]$ sudo yum install bind-utils

Install nslookup for Ubuntu

Use apt-cache to search the package for nslookup command.

[vagrant@DevopsRoles ~]$ apt-cache search nslookup

The result found 2 package that is related to nslookup.

dnsutils - Clients provided with BIND
libnet-nslookup-perl - simple DNS lookup module for perl

so install nslookup

[vagrant@DevopsRoles ~]$ sudo apt-get install dnsutils

Now you have to use nslookup command

[vagrant@DevopsRoles ~]$ nslookup x.x.x.x

Conclusion

Through the article, You have to install nslookup package on Linux System as above. I hope will this your helpful. Thank you for reading the DevopsRoles page!

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