mdnsd command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

mdnsd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mdnsd: command not found

Solutions to mdnsd: command not found

How To Fix mdnsd: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mdnsd is provided by mdnsd package.

mdnsd is:

This is a standalone mDNS-SD daemon for small systems. Although still limited in functionality it can announce services like FTP, HTTP, and SSH and respond to scanning (enumeration) requests from tools like mdns-scan.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install mdnsd

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install mdnsd.

sudo apt -y install mdnsd

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install mdnsd

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix mdnsd command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.