Project Summary
Dnsmasq is a 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/TFTP for network booting of diskless machines.
In a Nutshell, Dnsmasq...
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a large development team
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took an estimated 10 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in January, 2004
ending with its most recent commit about 2 months ago
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