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.
The DNS subsystem provides a local DNS server for the network, with forwarding of all query types to upstream recursive DNS servers and
cacheing of common record types (A, AAAA, CNAME and PTR, also DNSKEY and DS when DNSSEC is enabled).
<DIR>
<LI>Local DNS names can be defined by reading /etc/hosts, by importing names from the DHCP subsystem, or by configuration of a wide range of useful record types.</LI>
<LI>Upstream servers can be configured in a variety of convenient ways, including dynamic configuration as these change on moving upstream network.
<LI>Authoritative DNS mode allows local DNS names may be exported to zone in the global DNS. Dnsmasq acts as authoritative server for this zone, and also provides
zone transfer to secondaries for the zone, if required.</LI>
<LI>DNSSEC validation may be performed on DNS replies from upstream nameservers, providing security against spoofing and cache poisoning.</LI>
<LI>Specified sub-domains can be directed to their own upstream DNS servers, making VPN configuration easy.</LI>
<LI>Internationalised domain names are supported.
</DIR>
<P>
Dnsmasq provides the following features:
The DHCP subsystem supports DHCPv4, DHCPv6, BOOTP and PXE.
<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
<LI> Both static and dynamic DHCP leases are supported, along with stateless mode in DHCPv6.</LI>
<LI> The PXE system is a full PXE server, supporting netboot menus and multiple architecture support. It
includes proxy-mode, where the PXE system co-operates with another DHCP server.</LI>
<LI> There is a built in read-only TFTP server to support netboot.</LI>
<LI> 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>
centrally by associating a name with a MAC address or UID in the dnsmasq
configuration file.</LI>
</DIR>
<P>
The Router Advertisement subsystem provides basic autoconfiguration for IPv6 hosts. It can be used stand-alone or in conjunction with DHCPv6.
<DIR>
<LI> The M and O bits are configurable, to control hosts' use of DHCPv6.</LI>
<LI> Router advertisements can include the RDNSS option.</LI>
<LI> There is a mode which uses name information from DHCPv4 configuration to provide DNS entries
for autoconfigured IPv6 addresses which would otherwise be anonymous.</LI>
</DIR>
<P>
For extra compactness, unused features may be omitted at compile time.
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