ixfrdist command not found

Introduction

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

ixfrdist: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ixfrdist: command not found

Solutions to ixfrdist: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ixfrdist is provided by pdns-ixfrdist package.

pdns-ixfrdist is:

Transfers zones from an authoritative DNS server and serves them over AXFR and IXFR, caching multiple versions as needed on disk. This tool does not require any part of the PowerDNS server components to work.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pdns-ixfrdist

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

You can also use apt command to install pdns-ixfrdist.

sudo apt -y install pdns-ixfrdist

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

sudo aptitude install pdns-ixfrdist

Summary

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