Information about the package, dnstop, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The dnstop package is designed for, Displays information about DNS traffic on your network.
Package Name:
dnstop
Summary:
Displays information about DNS traffic on your network
Description:
dnstop is a libpcap application (ala tcpdump) that displays various tables of DNS traffic on your network. dnstop supports both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. To help find especially undesirable DNS queries, dnstop provides a number of filters. dnstop can either read packets from the live capture device, or from a tcpdump savefile.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
20140915
Release:
1.el6.1
Size:
37 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
BSD
Control the dnstop package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install dnstop
This command will install dnstop on the server.
yum remove dnstop
This command will un-install dnstop on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove dnstop, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove dnstop
This command will un-install dnstop on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove dnstop when using the -y flag.
yum update dnstop
This command will update dnstop to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove dnstop, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update dnstop
This command will update dnstop to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove dnstop when using the -y flag.
yum info dnstop
This command will show you core information about the dnstop package.
yum deplist dnstop
This command will show you the dependencies for dnstop. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update dnstop
This command will check if there is an update waiting on dnstop. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.