How To Install Nsupdate On Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, Fedora And Raspbian?

How To Install Nsupdate On Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, Fedora And Raspbian?

nsupdate

Clients provided with BIND

Maintainer: knot packagers



Section: net

Install nsupdate

  • Debian apt-get install knot-dnsutils Click to copy
  • Ubuntu apt-get install knot-dnsutils Click to copy
  • Alpine OS apk add bind-tools Click to copy
  • Arch Linux pacman -S bind-tools Click to copy
  • Kali Linux apt-get install dnsutils Click to copy
  • Fedora dnf install bind-utils Click to copy
  • Raspbian apt-get install knot-dnsutils Click to copy

dnsutils

Clients provided with BIND

The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) implements an Internet domain name server. BIND 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 source tree. - dig - query the DNS in various ways - nslookup - the older way to do it - nsupdate - perform dynamic updates (See RFC2136)

bind-utils

Bind-utils contains a collection of utilities for querying DNS

(Domain Name System) name servers to find out information about Internet hosts. These tools will provide you with the IP addresses for given host names, as well as other information about registered domains and network addresses. You should install bind-utils if you need to get information from DNS name servers.

knot-dnsutils

Clients provided with Knot DNS (kdig, knslookup, knsupdate)

Knot DNS is a fast, authoritative only, high performance, feature full and open source name server. Knot DNS is developed by CZ.NIC Labs, the R&D department of .CZ registry and hence is well suited to run anything from the root zone, the top-level domain, to many smaller standard domain names. This package delivers various client programs related to DNS that are derived from the Knot DNS source tree. - [k]dig - query the DNS in various ways - [k]nsupdate - perform dynamic updates (See RFC2136) Those clients were designed to be 1:1 compatible with BIND dnsutils, but they provide some enhancements, which are documented in respective manpages. WARNING: [k]nslookup is not provided as it is considered obsolete.

bind-tools

The Berkeley Internet Name Domain Name Server and tools
To install the latest version of nsupdate in your favorite operating system just copy the nsupdate installation command from above and paste it into terminal. It will download and install the latest version of nsupdate 2026 package in your OS.