Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by dylanh 3868 days ago
I run dnsmasq locally (and silently redirect all traffic from a certain uid with an iptables rule) to do adblocking and ... minimal parental control on my son's laptop. it is pretty great, I don't have to worry about him using the neighbor's wifi to get around my rules. ;)
2 comments

Another benefit is it caches DNS lookups.
is this on a PC or a router?
On a laptop. Otherwise I wouldn't know the uid. All users (including services) are allowed outgoing port 53/udp, except my son's user.