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Home Assistant Add-on: Dnsmasq

Installation

Follow these steps to get the add-on installed on your system:

  1. Navigate in your Home Assistant frontend to Supervisor -> Add-on Store.
  2. Find the "Dnsmasq" add-on and click it.
  3. Click on the "INSTALL" button.

How to use

The add-on has a couple of options available. For more detailed instructions see below. The basic thing to get the add-on running would be:

  1. Start the add-on.

Configuration

The Dnsmasq add-on can be tweaked to your likings. This section describes each of the add-on configuration options.

Example add-on configuration:

defaults:
  - 8.8.8.8
  - 8.8.4.4
forwards:
  - domain: mystuff.local
    server: 192.168.1.40
hosts:
  - host: home.mydomain.io
    ip: 192.168.1.10

Option: defaults (required)

The defaults are upstream DNS servers, where DNS requests that can't be handled locally, are forwarded to. By default it is configured to have Google's public DNS servers: "8.8.8.8", "8.8.4.4".

Port can be specified using # separator, eg. "192.168.1.2#1053"

Option: forwards (optional)

This option allows you to list domain that are forwarded to a different (not the default) upstream DNS server.

Option: forwards.domain

The domain to forward to a different upstream DNS server.

Option: forwards.server

The DNS server to forward the request for this domain to.

Option: hosts (optional)

This option allows you to provide local static answer for your DNS server.

This is helpful for making addresses resolve on your internal network and even override external domains to be answered with a local address.

For example, one could set myuser.duckdns.org to resolve directly to a internal IP address, e.g., 192.168.1.10. While outside of this network, it would resolve normally.

This option allows you to create a so called: Split DNS.

Option: hosts.host

The hostname or domainname to resolve locally.

Option: hosts.ip

The IP address Dnsmasq should respond with in its DNS answer.

Support

Got questions?

You have several options to get them answered:

In case you've found a bug, please open an issue on our GitHub.