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Some time ago, I wrote a post about running a Raspberry Pi as a home infrastructure server<\/a> (DNS, DHCP, TFTP, etc.). Now my Synology NAS is doing that for me<\/a> (well, the DNS and DHCP at least – TFTP is less critical as my Cisco 7940 IP Phone<\/a> just sits there taking up desk space most of the time) so I don’t need the Pi to provide those services.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, when I migrated DNS and DHCP a few months ago, I just stopped the service with sudo\u00a0service dnsmasq stop<\/code> so, after a power outage last week, when the Pi came back up, so did dnsmasq – and having two DNS\/DHCP servers on the network produced some strange results (as might be expected…).<\/p>\n

So, to do the job properly, I ran sudo\u00a0nano \/etc\/default\/dnsmasq<\/code>\u00a0and changed the ENABLED=1 line to ENABLED=0. That should prevent dnsmasq from running as a service but leaves the configuration intact if I ever need to bring it back online.<\/p>\n

A quick sudo reboot<\/code> and sudo\u00a0service dnsmasq\u00a0status<\/code> is all that’s needed to check that dnsmasq\u00a0stays disabled.<\/p>\n

\"dnsmasq,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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