This is a quick and dirty snap of dnsmasq! :-)

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To install: snap install dnsmasqd

To test the binary, run it in the foreground as a DNS proxy on port 8053: /snap/bin/dnsmasqd.dnsmasq -d -p 8053

Query it with dig: dig -p 8053 snapcraft.io @127.0.0.1

To use the daemon, just put a dnsmasq.conf in /var/snap/dnsmasq/common/; it should start automatically after some seconds.

If you need privileged operations such as to answer BOOTP/DHCP requests, make sure you connect the network-control interface: snap connect dnsmasqd:network-control ubuntu-core:network-control

To check the output of the daemon, use: sudo journalctl -u snap.dnsmasqd.dnsmasqd.service

The homepage of this snap is at https://github.com/lool/dnsmasq-snap and it should be built by Launchpad at https://code.launchpad.net/~lool/+snap/dnsmasqd based on a mirrored branch of the snap. Because Launchpad didn't allow pulling sources from random locations, snapcraft.yaml points at a GitHub copy of the upstream code at https://github.com/lool/dnsmasq.