This is the last of four posts related to dnsmasq; it covers the basics on how to set up your own DHCP server on your network. For reference, here are the previous dnsmasq posts on DNS caching, a read-only TFPT server, and DNS server. Set Up To install dnsmasq you…
In two previous blog posts we talked about Dnsmasq’s DNS caching and read-only TFTP server set up. Continuing with a third dnsmasq-related post, we’ll talk about how to set up a DNS server in your network. Set Up Literally, all you have to do is install dnsmasq on a host:…
In a previous post we talked about dnsmasq’s DNS caching capabilities. Here we’ll talk about the Trivial File Transfer Protocol server included in the dnsmasq utility. Note that this is a read-only TFTP server, and the reason it’s included in dnsmasq is that if you combine it with its DHCP…
Dnsmasq is Linux utility which provides DNS, DHCP, TFTP and DNS caching capabilities. It’s a very lightweight service, is available for most Linux distribution, and has found wide adoption for Android as well as OS X users. In this post, we’ll talk about the DNS caching part. Installation This could…
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DNS resolution is one of the most basic functionalities on any host. On Linux, there are multiple ways to test if DNS works, and in this post we’ll review how DNS servers are configured and what commands you can use to test them. DNS server configuration Every host needs to…