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DNSmasq is a lightweight DNS forwarder, DHCP and TFTP server, designed to provide DNS (and optionally DHCP and TFTP) services to a small-scale network.

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DNSmasq setup and configuration files

I've been on Ubuntu install docs for netboot instructions. There's mentioned I need to install DNSmasq and set it up by putting something like this in: /etc/dnsmasq.conf.d/pxe.conf interface=<your ... user avatar Wingarmac
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dnsmasq and NetworkManager DNS

I have a small network of computers that can be moved between sites. These computers are connected to a switch, and one of them acts as DHCP server and DNS server via dnsmasq for this network, let's ... user avatar Victor
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How can dnsmasq be listening if it's not running?

service --status-all shows dnsmasq with a (-) in front of it indicating it's not running. Yet when I try and run sudo dnsmasq I get the message dnsmasq: failed to create listening socket for 127.0.0.... user avatar L23P
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dnsmasq: failed to create listening socket for 127.0.0.1: Address already in use

I'm trying to set up dnsmasq on AWS Ubuntu 20.4 by following this link. However, I can't seem to get around the error dnsmasq: failed to create listening socket for port 53: Address already in use I'... user avatar L23P
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How to Install dnsmasq on Ubuntu?

I tried on ubuntu 16.04 and 20.04, however I cannot install dnsmasq. The error I get is: Package dnsmasq is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is ... user avatar tread
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Disable the Build in DNS Service in Ubuntu-Core

I have using Ubuntu-Core as for my Raspberry Pi 4 for running Docker on it. Now I plan to use the Pi-Hole Container on it for AdBlocking. This container acts as a DNS Server in my network. But on ... user avatar Stefc
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TFTP Aborted received from

I tried to set up a PXE-boot server with dnsmasq. Everything is working but the there is an error regarding TFTP. Nov 9 12:28:52 zika dnsmasq-dhcp[59739]: DHCPDISCOVER(enp4s0) 08:00:27:78:a4:c2 Nov ... user avatar Brad Thompson
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Problem enabling dnsmasq

I work on Ruby on Rails project which uses some subdomains and custom domains. I have installed dnsmasq server and added this to the starting of the file: address=/ address=/xyzsites.... user avatar Deepesh
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Systemd-resolved not querying local server (dnsmasq) when offline

I have configured dnsmasq to handle some local domains, with config like this: address=/local/127.0.0.1 address=/devel/127.0.0.1 /etc/systemd/resolved.conf was changed to: [Resolve] DNS=127.0.1.1 # ... user avatar TiGR
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How can we add name resolution for hostname for LAN? [duplicate]

I recently installed which is nextCloud appliance It automatically translated the IP to a hostname masking 192.168.1.2 to nextcloud.local I want to achieve the ... user avatar Samdeesh Menia
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dnsmasq: after adding strict-order flag to configuration file, dnsmasq only forwarding queries to first three nameservers from the resolv.dnsmasq file

First used glibc resolver, but faced some issue with supported nameservers then tried dnsmasq and able to query all the namservers. But after adding strict-order to the /var/dnsmasq.conf then the the ... user avatar TamiL
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local DNS with dnsmasq not working for client

I'm trying to setup my raspberry Pi, running with Ubuntu server 20.04, as a wireless router so I can create a local network behind my raspberry pi. I'm using hostapd to create a Wifi Access Point and ... user avatar cylon86
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Ubuntu 20.04 resolved waits for refused IPV6 result with dnsmasq

TL;DR My DNS queries are slow because systemd-resolved queries the DNS server on IPv4 successfully but repeatedly queries on IPv6 after the DNS server responds with a REFUSED. Is this a resolved ... user avatar tegtmeye
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how to change IP Address DNS Only?

I want to change the DNS IP to other than Indonesia, can that happen? because I can only use a VPN, the IP Address and DNS will change according to the VPN. but I want only DNS to change for example ... user avatar Joe Cola
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Random DNS resolution outages, no idea what to try next. (20.04.02)

For the past 3 months, I have been struggling with a random issue on my homeserver where DNS resolution drops for a brief period of time (10-60 seconds) for absolutely no reason. Pinging via hostname ... user avatar thomcat
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