Authoritative Dnsmasq in a MikroTik Container
Introduction MikroTik Containers Installing a dnsmasq container Dual-use dnsmasq Introduction Recently I joined DN42, a world-wide overlay network created for experimenting with IP routing and for connecting communities, hack-spaces, and networking nerds who are not allowed 😜 to break the real Internet. I wanted to play on hard mode, so I configured the DN42 tunnels in a VRF on my home lab switch, a MikroTik RB4011. And of course I wanted to provide authoritative DNS for my .dn42 zone from the same switch.
- ▪Introduction MikroTik Containers Installing a dnsmasq container Dual-use dnsmasq Introduction Recently I joined DN42, a world-wide overlay network created for experimenting with IP routing and for connecting communities, hack-spaces, and ne
- ▪I wanted to play on hard mode, so I configured the DN42 tunnels in a VRF on my home lab switch, a MikroTik RB4011.
- ▪And of course I wanted to provide authoritative DNS for my .dn42 zone from the same switch.
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op-co.de blog/ posts/ Authoritative dnsmasq in a MikroTik container RecentChanges Navigation Homepage Blog Archive github 🦣 chaos 📸 photo Tags android boot dn42 graphics hardware homebrew mikrotik misc net reverse-engineering samsung-nx xmpp Blogroll bunnie debugmo.de jssfr pagetable.com xnyhps yosefk Georg Lukas, 2026-07-26 19:24 This post is about setting up and configuring a dnsmasq container on a MikroTik RouterOS device to be used as an authoritative DNS server and a forwarding cache at the same time.
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