fpdns command not found

Introduction

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

fpdns: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fpdns: command not found

Solutions to fpdns: command not found

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

In Ubuntu fpdns is provided by fpdns package.

fpdns is:

A nameserver basically responds to a query. Interoperability is an obvious requirement here. The standard protocol behaviour of different DNS implementations is expected to be the same.

The reality is quite different though. fpdns uses a series of borderline DNS queries to determine the vendor, product and version of a nameserver.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fpdns

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

You can also use apt command to install fpdns.

sudo apt -y install fpdns

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

sudo aptitude install fpdns

Summary

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