[9248]

At first, when I switched to Ubuntu and saw dnsmasq I was a little happy. I thought I could finally have something lightweight and slightly more powerful than a hosts file plus more control over what happens with my queries.

But then I tried to search online and at least try to understand what it actually is, what it does or is supposed to do, or what it doesn't do and so on. Then I thought that running bind9 might be easier, at least I know what it's supposed to do.

I finally decided to leave it the way it came with my Ubuntu. Some articles say it's there to act as a dns cache and something else with VPNs while other articles claim the caching functionality is turned off by default. Really confusing for somebody who's not that experienced.