Nslookup: command not found error on RHEL/CentOS 7

Question

During linux installation I selected "minimal" option:

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When I went to run the nslookup command to look up an IP address I got the error message nslookup: command not found as shown in the example below.

$ nslookup www.google.com
bash: nslookup: command not found

Have you tried installing the `bind-utils` package, which includes the `nslookup` binary? — Wieland, Oct 25 '14 at 16:26

score 169 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 04 '15 at 22:09

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The minimal install likely did not come with the bind-utils package, which I believe contains nslookup.

You can install bind-utils with:

sudo yum install bind-utils

In general, you can search for what package provides a command using the yum provides command:

sudo yum provides '*bin/nslookup'

edited Apr 04 '15 at 22:09

Franklin Piat

answered Oct 25 '14 at 16:24

Steven D

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Or if you don't know where the command should live, `*/nslookup`. – geedoubleya Oct 25 '14 at 16:48
I get `package bind-utils not found` – Black Jun 03 '16 at 06:30
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@Black If you are using `ubuntu`, use `apt-get install dnsutils -y` instead. – cizixs Mar 28 '17 at 09:40
Also for Arch `dnsutils` – JoKeR Jan 28 '19 at 13:27
`yum install bind-utils -y` worked for me on amazon linux docker image – Mithun Biswas May 02 '22 at 10:54

score 28 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 28 '19 at 15:48

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For those using DEBIAN, the package to use is dnsutils and the installation process should be, initiated with:

sudo apt-get install dnsutils -y

According to other users it is the same for Ubuntu

answered Jan 28 '19 at 15:48

f4d0

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