In this tutorial, we will go through the steps on how to install SmartDNS on Fedora CoreOS Latest, which is available on https://github.com/pymumu/smartdns.
Before we start the installation process, make sure you have the following prerequisites:
The installation process of SmartDNS on Fedora CoreOS Latest requires the following steps:
To download SmartDNS from Github, we need to have git installed. Run the following command to install git:
sudo dnf install git
Clone the SmartDNS repository from Github using the following command:
git clone https://github.com/pymumu/smartdns
The command will create a folder called smartdns in your working directory that contains the necessary files for the SmartDNS setup.
Go to the smartdns directory using the following command:
cd smartdns
Then, run the make command to build and install SmartDNS:
sudo make install
After the installation is complete, the next step is to configure SmartDNS. The configuration file is located at /usr/local/etc/smartdns/smartdns.conf. You can use any text editor to modify this file according to your needs.
sudo nano /usr/local/etc/smartdns/smartdns.conf
Start SmartDNS using the following command:
sudo systemctl start smartdns
To make sure that SmartDNS starts automatically on system boot, run the following command:
sudo systemctl enable smartdns
To test the SmartDNS setup, run the following command:
dig google.com @127.0.0.1 -p 5335
This command will send a DNS query to the SmartDNS server listening on port 5335. If the query is successful, you should see the following response:
;; ANSWER SECTION:
google.com. 299 IN A 142.251.46.14
Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured SmartDNS on your Fedora CoreOS Latest system. You can now use SmartDNS as an alternative DNS resolver on your computer.
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