Information about the package, dnsperf, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The dnsperf package is designed for, Benchmarking authorative and recursing DNS servers.
Package Name:
dnsperf
Summary:
Benchmarking authorative and recursing DNS servers
Description:
This is dnsperf, a collection of DNS server performance testing tools. For more information, see the dnsperf(1) and resperf(1) man pages.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.1.0.0
Release:
1.el6
Size:
64 M
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
MIT
Control the dnsperf package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install dnsperf
This command will install dnsperf on the server.
yum remove dnsperf
This command will un-install dnsperf on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove dnsperf, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove dnsperf
This command will un-install dnsperf 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 dnsperf when using the -y flag.
yum update dnsperf
This command will update dnsperf to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove dnsperf, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update dnsperf
This command will update dnsperf 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 dnsperf when using the -y flag.
yum info dnsperf
This command will show you core information about the dnsperf package.
yum deplist dnsperf
This command will show you the dependencies for dnsperf. 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 dnsperf
This command will check if there is an update waiting on dnsperf. 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.