dnsmasq
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
1warn against
Dec 3, 2025first mention
Oct 8, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“take a look at adguard home, dnsmask or unbound. the best is to run your own infra”
“then on top of that running dnsmasq locally.”
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“I use dnsmasq mostly for its fantastic integration with DNS.”
Caveats and dissent
“I've had issues with dnsmasq in the past where it was remotely resolving domains even when they were configured to resolve locally.”
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Data: dnsmasq.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 7
“I've had issues with dnsmasq in the past where it was remotely resolving domains even when they were configured to resolve locally.”
“take a look at adguard home, dnsmask or unbound. the best is to run your own infra”
“I used to use dnsmasq and etc/resolvers for stuff like dot dev or dit whatever back in the day.”
“I use dnsmasq for .local dev routing”
“Then you create a dnsmasq blacklist for all the LG domains”
“then on top of that running dnsmasq locally.”
“I use dnsmasq mostly for its fantastic integration with DNS.”