Disable dhcp service in dnsmasq - Server Fault
serverfault.com › questions › 351962dnsmasq has dhcp server disabled by default. To enable it you have to uncomment dhcp-related lines in /etc/dnsmasq.conf. to forward all requests to 208.67.222.222 it's sufficient to add (without touching dnsmasq config) in /etc/resolv.conf: nameserver 127.0.0.1 # In order to configure dnsmasq to act as cache for the host on which it # is running, put [as the first line] "nameserver 127.0.0.1" in /etc/resolv.conf to force # local processes to send queries to dnsmasq. [...] # dnsmasq is smart ...