Information about the package, resolv_wrapper, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The resolv_wrapper package is designed for, A wrapper for dns name resolving or dns faking.
Package Name:
resolv_wrapper
Summary:
A wrapper for dns name resolving or dns faking
URL:
Description:
It is likely that if you have a server/client architecture, you need to do DNS queries or a third party library, like Kerberos needs to be able to do queries. In the case of Kerberos the client needs to look the address of the KDC up via a SRV record. resolv_wrapper is able to either redirect all DNS queries to your DNS server implementation, or fake DNS replies! To use it set the following environment variables: LD_PRELOAD=libresolv_wrapper.so RESOLV_WRAPPER_CONF=./my_resolv.conf This package doesn't have a devel package because this project is for development/testing.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.1.0
Release:
2.el6
Size:
18 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
BSD
Control the resolv_wrapper package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install resolv_wrapper
This command will install resolv_wrapper on the server.
yum remove resolv_wrapper
This command will un-install resolv_wrapper on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove resolv_wrapper, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove resolv_wrapper
This command will un-install resolv_wrapper 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 resolv_wrapper when using the -y flag.
yum update resolv_wrapper
This command will update resolv_wrapper to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove resolv_wrapper, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update resolv_wrapper
This command will update resolv_wrapper 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 resolv_wrapper when using the -y flag.
yum info resolv_wrapper
This command will show you core information about the resolv_wrapper package.
yum deplist resolv_wrapper
This command will show you the dependencies for resolv_wrapper. 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 resolv_wrapper
This command will check if there is an update waiting on resolv_wrapper. 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.