NSLookup and dig not recognized

[msamman]

when using either dig or nslookup commands, I get a

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~bash: command not found

type error.

how can I install the package to use nslookup and dig?

Thanks

[kintrob]

Hi msamman. This should work:

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sudo apt-get install dnsutils

[CrazyEvan]

To get dnsutils to work, I had to first do a

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sudo apt-get update

prior to

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sudo apt-get install dnsutils

which then worked fine, and nslookup was up and running.

[B.Goode]

The person making the enquiry hasn't logged in for 3 years...

[CrazyEvan]

The person making the enquiry hasn't logged in for 3 years...

I had the exact same issue that the original poster had 3 years later, and found this page looking for a solution. I thought someone else might have the same problem and figured it couldn't hurt to keep the solution updated.

[mikey32094]

+1 that a new answer to an old question can often still be helpful, especially with linux. I came here with the same issue, and this thread solved it for me as well.

[breakaway]

To get dnsutils to work, I had to first do a

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sudo apt-get update

prior to

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sudo apt-get install dnsutils

which then worked fine, and nslookup was up and running.

Thanks to CrazyEvan, i'm able to get my issue resolved very quick.

I wish everybody would reply to a post (regardless of how old it is) until a good answer is found. That's the spirit of a forum, not to avoid responding to older thread. There are always newbie to Linux (because people will grow old ), and they will always need answers to questions.

[ksamuelson]

Hopefully this helps.
I have found that when "sudo apt-get install <prgm>" or "sudo apt-get update" fails it is usually a result of the Pi date being wrong. If the Pi is not getting the data via a ntp server or the server is blocked then the date will not be correct and the update may not work quite right.
try the command
date
first then if the date is not correct you can fix the ntp server settings (see many other posts) or manually set it via the command
sudo date -s '2016-10-03 18:22:00'

You can figure out the format from above or search the Internet.

[fsr]

current jessie raspian is missing dnsutils.

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pi@raspberrypi:/ $ date
Tue 20 Dec 12:52:46 UTC 2016
pi@raspberrypi:/ $ uname -a
Linux raspberrypi 4.4.34-v7+ #930 SMP Wed Nov 23 15:20:41 GMT 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux
pi@raspberrypi:/ $ nslookup
-bash: nslookup: command not found
pi@raspberrypi:/ $ dig
-bash: dig: command not found

[kusti8]

current jessie raspian is missing dnsutils.

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pi@raspberrypi:/ $ date
Tue 20 Dec 12:52:46 UTC 2016
pi@raspberrypi:/ $ uname -a
Linux raspberrypi 4.4.34-v7+ #930 SMP Wed Nov 23 15:20:41 GMT 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux
pi@raspberrypi:/ $ nslookup
-bash: nslookup: command not found
pi@raspberrypi:/ $ dig
-bash: dig: command not found

So can't you just install it?

[smokingwheels]

I had the nslookup problem.

I fixed it by doing this after reading this post

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apt-get install dnsutils
apt-get update
apt-get install dnsutils

Error on IP address first time around.

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apt-get install dnsutils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libproxy-tools vlc-plugin-pulse
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
Suggested packages:
  rblcheck
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  dnsutils
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 114 kB of archives.
After this operation, 361 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Err http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ jessie/main dnsutils armhf 1:9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u14
  404  Not Found [IP: 93.93.128.193 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/pool/main/b/bind9/dnsutils_9.9.5.dfsg-9+deb8u14_armhf.deb  404  Not Found [IP: 93.93.128.193 80]

E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
root@raspberrypi:~# apt-get update

Hope that helps.

[rockingh0rse]

Absolutely perfect. This reply fro Jan 2018 sorted me out!

Respond to old threads - yep, no problem with that - provided it adds value.

[FordBot3000]

Yep, seven years later and this post still helps.