RHEL 8 dig command not found – How to install dig on RHEL 8

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The dig command is not included in the default installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8). However, you can install it using the package manager, dnf.

Here’s how to install dig on RHEL 8:

  1. Log in to the RHEL 8 server as a root user or with sudo privileges.
  2. Run the following command to install the bind-utils package, which includes the dig command:
dnf install bind-utils
  1. Once the installation is complete, you can run the dig command to perform DNS lookups. For example, to query the IP address for the domain example.com, you can run the following command:
dig example.com
  1. To verify that the dig command has been installed and is working properly, you can run the following command:
dig -v

This will display the version information for the dig command. If the installation was successful, you should see output indicating the version of dig installed on your system.

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