Dnsmasq

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Overview

Dnsmasq is a DNS query forwarder. It will not answer arbitrary queries by recursively interact with root DNS servers. It will forward such queries to a fully recursive upstream DNS server.

The upstream servers can be inferred from /etc/resolv.conf, specified on command line with --server option or specified in the Dnsmasq configuration files with:

server=192.168.122.12

Configuration

/etc/dnsmasq.conf

/etc/dnsmasq.d/