lodns is a simple DNS server intended for local development.
Obsoletes editing hosts file or manually installing and configuring dnsmasq.
It is designed to respond to DNS queries for all subdomains of .lo TLD.
Supports both IPv4 and IPv6, lodns will respond accordingly to DNS queries, to A queries with 127.0.0.1 and to AAAA queries with ::1.
lodns will act only as a secondary DNS server dedicated to .lo TLD on every platform. For all other DNS queries still will be used default system DNS.
Download correct binary from the latest release and place it somewhere in the PATH.
Or pipe the install script to bash
curl -sSfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vandot/lodns/main/install.sh | bash
Or build it locally
nimble install lodns
Note: lodns support for Linux relies on systemd and systemd-resolved
lodns comes preconfigured for all supported platforms to act as a secondary DNS server quired only for .lo domain.
On MacOS and Linux and to be able to configure the system provide sudo password when asked
lodns install
On Windows run inside elevated command prompt or Powershell
lodns.exe install
On Windows and Linux with systemd version <= 245 lodns has to run on a well-known port 53 and service has to be started with elevated priviledges.
On MacOS and Linux (systemd > 245)
lodns start
On Linux (systemd <=245)
sudo lodns start
On Windows inside elevated command prompt or Powershell
lodns.exe start
Using dig or ping you can test lodns
$ dig +short @127.0.0.1 -p 5354 A test.lo
127.0.0.1
$ dig +short @127.0.0.1 -p 5354 AAAA test.lo
::1
$ ping test.lo
PING test.lo (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.057 ms
On MacOS and Linux run and provide sudo password when asked
lodns uninstall
On Windows run inside elevated command prompt or Powershell
lodns.exe uninstall
and remove the binary.
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