How To Install dnsmasq on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dnsmasq
on CentOS 7.
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 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dnsmasq.
Install dnsmasq on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install dnsmasq
using yum
by running the following command:
Install dnsmasq on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install dnsmasq
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall dnsmasq on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the dnsmasq
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dnsmasq
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.