dnstracer command not found

Introduction

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

dnstracer: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dnstracer: command not found

Solutions to dnstracer: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dnstracer is provided by dnstracer package.

dnstracer is:

dnstracer determines where a given Domain Name Server (DNS) gets its information from for a given hostname, and follows the chain of DNS servers back to the authoritative answer.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dnstracer

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

You can also use apt command to install dnstracer.

sudo apt -y install dnstracer

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

sudo aptitude install dnstracer

Summary

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