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My reasons: - Centralize DNS settings to one place for my mini-itx (that I take to coffeeshops with me and pipe through my laptop) and any VMs running on that
by timf 18y ago
My reasons:
- Centralize DNS settings to one place for my mini-itx (that I take to coffeeshops with me and pipe through my laptop) and any VMs running on that machine or my laptop.
- Centralize ad-hoc and "rigged" hostname settings for all these things, my local /etc/hosts names are all propagated to anything using the server.
- Non multi-machine consideration: caching. There's almost zero overhead to setting up dnsmasq, may as well take advantage of a local dns cache (browser cache is only good for web browsing). I can tell the difference, especially on some networks.
- timf 18y agoI just realized people are hung up on the resolving part of that link and not the "on laptop cache" part. I don't think there's any compelling reason to run an actual resolver (as opposed to a local cache that recurses to a reliable, non-monetizing public cache).