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+<TITLE> Dnsmasq - a DNS forwarder for NAT firewalls.</TITLE>
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+<H1 ALIGN=center>Dnsmasq</H1> 
+Dnsmasq is a lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder and DHCP
+ server. It is designed to provide DNS and, optionally, DHCP, to a 
+ small network. It can serve the names of local machines which are 
+ not in the global DNS. The DHCP server integrates with the DNS 
+ server and allows machines with DHCP-allocated addresses
+ to appear in the DNS with names configured either in each host or
+ in a central configuration file. Dnsmasq supports static and dynamic 
+ DHCP leases and BOOTP/TFTP/PXE for network booting of diskless machines.
+<P>
+ Dnsmasq is targeted at home networks using NAT and 
+connected to the internet via a modem, cable-modem or ADSL
+connection but would be a good choice for any smallish network (up to
+1000 clients is known to work) where low
+resource use and ease of configuration are important. 
+<P>
+Supported platforms include Linux (with glibc and uclibc), *BSD,
+Solaris and Mac OS X.
+Dnsmasq is included in at least the following Linux distributions:
+Gentoo, Debian, Slackware, Suse, Fedora,
+Smoothwall, IP-Cop, floppyfw, Firebox, LEAF, Freesco, fli4l,
+CoyoteLinux, Endian Firewall and
+Clarkconnect. It is also available as FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD ports and is used in
+Linksys wireless routers (dd-wrt, openwrt and the stock firmware) and the m0n0wall project.
+<P>
+Dnsmasq provides the following features:
+<DIR>
+
+<LI> 
+The DNS configuration of machines behind the firewall is simple and
+doesn't depend on the details of the ISP's dns servers
+<LI>
+Clients which try to do DNS lookups while  a modem link to the
+internet is down will time out immediately.
+</LI>
+<LI>
+Dnsmasq will serve names from the /etc/hosts file on the firewall
+machine: If the names of local machines are there, then they can all
+be addressed without having to maintain /etc/hosts on each machine.
+</LI>
+<LI>
+The integrated DHCP server supports static and dynamic DHCP leases and
+multiple networks and IP ranges. It works across BOOTP relays and
+supports DHCP options including RFC3397 DNS search lists.
+Machines which are configured by DHCP have their names automatically 
+included in the DNS and the names can specified by each machine or
+centrally by associating a name with a MAC address in the dnsmasq
+config file.
+</LI>
+<LI>
+Dnsmasq caches internet addresses (A records and AAAA records) and address-to-name
+mappings (PTR records), reducing the load on upstream servers and
+improving performance (especially on modem connections). 
+</LI>
+<LI>
+Dnsmasq can be configured to automatically pick up the addresses of
+its upstream nameservers from ppp or dhcp configuration. It will
+automatically reload this information if it changes. This facility
+will be of particular interest to maintainers of Linux firewall
+distributions since it allows dns configuration to be made automatic.
+</LI>
+<LI>
+On IPv6-enabled boxes, dnsmasq can both talk to upstream servers via IPv6 
+and offer DNS service via IPv6. On dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) boxes it talks
+both protocols and can even act as IPv6-to-IPv4 or IPv4-to-IPv6 forwarder.
+</LI>
+<LI>
+Dnsmasq can be configured to send queries for certain domains to
+upstream servers handling only those domains. This makes integration
+with private DNS systems easy.
+</LI>
+<LI>
+Dnsmasq supports MX and SRV records and can be configured to return MX records
+for any or all local machines.
+</LI>
+</DIR>
+
+<H2>Download.</H2>
+
+<A HREF="http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/"> Download</A> dnsmasq here. 
+The tarball includes this documentation, source, and manpage.
+There is also a <A HREF="CHANGELOG"> CHANGELOG</A> and a <A HREF="FAQ">FAQ</A>.
+Dnsmasq is part of the Debian distribution, it can be downloaded from 
+<A HREF="http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/dnsmasq/"> here</A> or installed using <TT>apt</TT>.
+
+<H2>Links.</H2>
+Damien Raude-Morvan has an article in French at <A HREF="http://www.drazzib.com/docs-dnsmasq.html">http://www.drazzib.com/docs-dnsmasq.html</A>
+There is a good article about dnsmasq at <A
+HREF="http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netos/article.php/3377351">http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netos/article.php/3377351</A>
+and another at <A
+HREF="http://www.linux.com/articles/149040">http://www.linux.com/articles/149040</A>
+and Ilya Evseev has an article in Russian about dnsmasq to be found at
+<A HREF="http://ilya-evseev.narod.ru/articles/dnsmasq">
+http://ilya-evseev.narod.ru/articles/dnsmasq</A>. Ismael Ull has an
+article about dnsmasq in Spanish at <A HREF="http://www.mey-online.com.ar/blog/index.php/archives/guia-rapida-de-dnsmasq">http://www.mey-online.com.ar/blog/index.php/archives/guia-rapida-de-dnsmasq</A>
+<H2>License.</H2>
+Dnsmasq is distributed under the GPL. See the file COPYING in the distribution 
+for details.
+
+<H2>Contact.</H2>
+There is a dnsmasq mailing list at <A
+HREF="http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss">
+http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss</A> which should be the
+first location for queries, bugreports, suggestions etc.
+Dnsmasq was written by Simon Kelley. You can contact me at <A
+HREF="mailto:simon@thekelleys.org.uk">simon@thekelleys.org.uk</A>.
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