osx Mavericks: dnsmasq stops working

Question

I have been using dnsmasq on mac osx mountain lion which was installed via mac ports. Recently,I upgraded to Osx Mavericks and all of a sudden it has stopped working.

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Answer 1

Solved mine by doing the following:

1. mkdir -pv $(brew --prefix)/etc/
2. echo 'address=/.dev/127.0.0.1' > $(brew --prefix)/etc/dnsmasq.conf
3. sudo cp -v $(brew --prefix dnsmasq)/homebrew.mxcl.dnsmasq.plist /Library/LaunchDaemons
4. sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.dnsmasq.plist
5. sudo mkdir -v /etc/resolver
6. sudo bash -c 'echo "nameserver 127.0.0.1" > /etc/resolver/dev'

If your development domains are not .dev, then change the bolded parts to your domain. If you need other domains, you need to only repeat steps 2 and 6.

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Source: This brilliant blog post by Alan Ivey.