ip2host command not found

Introduction

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

ip2host: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ip2host: command not found

Solutions to ip2host: command not found

How To Fix ip2host: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ip2host is provided by ip2host package.

ip2host is:

This script is a drop-in replacement for the logresolve.pl script distributed with the Apache web server.

ip2host has the same basic design of forking children to handle the DNS resolution in parallel, but multiplexes the communication to minimize the impact of slow responses. This results in a significant speed improvement (approximately 10x faster), and the performance degrades more gracefully as the DNS timeout value is increased.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ip2host

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

You can also use apt command to install ip2host.

sudo apt -y install ip2host

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

sudo aptitude install ip2host

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix ip2host command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.