In this tutorial, we will be installing dnsmasq on POP! OS Latest. dnsmasq is a lightweight DNS and DHCP server.
Before we begin, make sure that you have a terminal window open and you are logged in as a user with sudo privileges.
To install dnsmasq, we will first add the dnsmasq repository to our system. To do this, we will use the following commands:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install dnsmasq
These commands will add the repository and install dnsmasq on your system.
Once dnsmasq is installed, we need to configure it to work with our system. We can configure dnsmasq by editing the dnsmasq.conf file.
Open the dnsmasq.conf file using your favorite text editor:
sudo nano /etc/dnsmasq.conf
In this file, you can configure options such as your DNS servers, DHCP settings, and more.
Make any changes you want to make and then save the file.
Now that we have configured dnsmasq, we need to start the service. We can do this by using the following command:
sudo systemctl start dnsmasq
To make sure that dnsmasq starts automatically on boot, we will use the following command:
sudo systemctl enable dnsmasq
This command will enable the dnsmasq service to start automatically on boot.
In this tutorial, we have learned how to install dnsmasq on POP! OS Latest. We have also learned how to configure dnsmasq and start the service. Now you can use dnsmasq to serve DNS queries and provide DHCP services for your network.
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