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I've seen references to DNSMasq, but never took the time to actually look it up. It looks like a useful bit of software to me - I can change a laptop's hosts file to refer to our Myth pc, but that doesn't help "smart" phones... hmmm.. So, what's the issue with it? I also haven't had any problems with OpenDNS. I use it along with DNSCrypt (http://dnscrypt.org/) fine, so I'm not sure what the hijacking issue is either? (Apart from a reference to a Dell / Google workaround...) It appears that some OpenNIC sites are supporting DNSCrypt too (http://wiki.opennicproject.org/Tier2), so I guess everything can be combined. DNSMasq on 1 dedicated DNS "server" using DNSCrypt to resolve external queries via OpenNIC?? My initial - one evening - test feels like OpenNIC is slower than OpenDNS and I had a few issues with some sites, but that might be something to do with Firefox cache. I'll see what happens over the next few days -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rob Beard Sent: 15 January 2014 21:36 To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [LUG] CentOS and it's useful lack of network on boot On 15/01/2014 21:27, Martin Gautier wrote: > > On 15/01/14 21:05, Rob Beard wrote: >> hassle on Ubuntu/Linux Mint running it's own copy of DNSMasq and >> pointing to OpenDNS with their annoying DNS hijacking and adverts > Yep. DNSMasq is one of my first set of automatic removals - it stinks! > > It's news about this OpenDNS thing though. Is that an Ubuntu default? > I've not seen it... > > Martin > I actually used to run DNSMasq on my server, but I installed it, and it worked quite well providing basic DNS to my small home network (and blocking some sites read from a hosts file) but I found the Ubuntu version seemed to disregard what DHCP was telling it to use (i.e. my home DNS server) and went and used OpenDNS. To be fair it doesn't seem to have caused me an issue in Mint in a while. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq