mdns-scan command not found

Introduction

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

mdns-scan: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mdns-scan: command not found

Solutions to mdns-scan: command not found

How To Fix mdns-scan: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mdns-scan is provided by mdns-scan package.

mdns-scan is:

mdns-scan is a tool for scanning for mDNS/DNS-SD services published on the local network.

It works by issuing a mDNS PTR query to the special RR _services._dns-sd._udp.local for retrieving a list of all currently registered services on the local link.

mDNS/DNS-SD is part of Apple’s Zeroconf strategy (a.k.a. Bonjour). The avahi-daemon package is an implementation of mDNS/DNS-SD.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mdns-scan

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

You can also use apt command to install mdns-scan.

sudo apt -y install mdns-scan

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

sudo aptitude install mdns-scan

Summary

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