dnsmasq

• is a lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder, designed to provide DNS (and optionally DHCP and TFTP) services to a small-scale network
• it can serve the names of local machines which are not in the global DNS

Features

• DHCP
• DNS and DNS caching
• Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)

Installation

homebrew

1. install dnsmasq
brew install dnsmasq

2. verify dnsmasq was installed
which dnsmasq

3. To configure dnsmasq, copy the example configuration to /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.conf and edit to taste
cp /usr/local/opt/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.conf.example /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.conf

4. To have launchd start dnsmasq now and restart at startup
sudo brew services start dnsmasq

apt-get

1. install dnsmasq
apt-get install dnsmasq

2. verify dnsmasq was installed
which dnsmasq