dnsmasq is one of these tools that are very handy to carry around on your laptop. Just to reiterate, it can do: - serve DNS requests (as mentioned in the artic

dnsmasq is one of these tools that are very handy to carry around on your laptop. Just to reiterate, it can do: - serve DNS requests (as mentioned in the article) - ask your upstream DNS for unknown DNS records (as mentioned in the article) but also: - be a DHCP server - be a TFTP server It seems that the last version of NetworkManager now starts a dnsmasq to redirect queries to the currently active DNS server (instead of rewriting /etc/resolv.conf which seems now to constantly point to localhost as a nameserver) -> So you'll find it on most "default" Ubuntu installs from now on. Very convenient. http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html