dnsdist command not found

Introduction

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

dnsdist: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dnsdist: command not found

Solutions to dnsdist: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dnsdist is provided by dnsdist package.

dnsdist is:

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.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dnsdist

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

You can also use apt command to install dnsdist.

sudo apt -y install dnsdist

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

sudo aptitude install dnsdist

Summary

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