At first, when I switched to Ubuntu and saw dnsmasq I was a little happy. I thought I could finally have something lightweight and slightly more powerful than a hosts file plus more control over what happens with my queries.<p>But then I tried to search online and at least try to understand what it actually is, what it does or is supposed to do, or what it doesn&#x27;t do and so on. Then I thought that running bind9 might be easier, at least I know what it&#x27;s supposed to do.<p>I finally decided to leave it the way it came with my Ubuntu. Some articles say it&#x27;s there to act as a dns cache and something else with VPNs while other articles claim the caching functionality is turned off by default. Really confusing for somebody who&#x27;s not that experienced.