alt Hacker NewsI use dnsmasq mostly for its fantastic integration with DNS.
DHCP and DNS go hand in hand in a network, I really struggle to understand why they are not more integrated in otherwise great solutions (such as kea)
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mieses • today at 9:30 AM
dnsmasq is great. The best part is that you can assign the same IP to multiple interfaces on the same device (to multiple MAC addresses) which drives network purists crazy and is no longer supported by systemd-networkd (because they are puritans). Separated DHCP/DNS can not do this. I will look into kea and whether they can do this.
Yeah. Nowadays I use pi-hole which is dnsmasq underneath and use it with unbound.
Works great. Minimal fuss, efficient setup, little maintenance, I don't have to understand the guts. Everything on my local network is addressable.
Ad blocking at the router is also something you don't want live without once you've gone there but pi-hole is a great solution even if you don't want that.