How To Install dnsmasq on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dnsmasq on CentOS 8.
What is dnsmasq
Dnsmasq is lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder and DHCP server. It is designed to provide DNS and, optionally, DHCP, to a small network. It can serve the names of local machines which are not in the global DNS. The DHCP server integrates with the DNS server and allows machines with DHCP-allocated addresses to appear in the DNS with names configured either in each host or in a central configuration file. Dnsmasq supports static and dynamic DHCP leases and BOOTP for network booting of diskless machines.
We can use yum or dnf to install dnsmasq on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dnsmasq.
Install dnsmasq on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install dnsmasq using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dnsmasq
Install dnsmasq on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install dnsmasq using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dnsmasq
How To Uninstall dnsmasq on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the dnsmasq package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dnsmasq
dnsmasq Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/dnsmasq.conf
/etc/dnsmasq.conf
/etc/dnsmasq.d
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/50
/usr/lib/.build-id/50/679c94360769f5c0ecc41e80ad985dd536d728
/usr/lib/systemd/system/dnsmasq.service
/usr/lib/sysusers.d/dnsmasq.conf
/usr/sbin/dnsmasq
/usr/share/dnsmasq
/usr/share/dnsmasq/trust-anchors.conf
/usr/share/doc/dnsmasq
/usr/share/doc/dnsmasq/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/dnsmasq/DBus-interface
/usr/share/doc/dnsmasq/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/dnsmasq/doc.html
/usr/share/doc/dnsmasq/setup.html
/usr/share/licenses/dnsmasq
/usr/share/licenses/dnsmasq/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/dnsmasq/COPYING-v3
/usr/share/man/man8/dnsmasq.8.gz
/var/lib/dnsmasq
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dnsmasq on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
