{"id":1083,"date":"2026-11-10T13:00:34","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T05:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myvoipapp.com\/blog\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2026-11-10T13:00:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T05:00:34","slug":"some-issues-running-minidnserver-on-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myvoipapp.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/10\/some-issues-running-minidnserver-on-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Issues Running miniDNServer on Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">miniDNServer listens for DNS query messages from clients on the standard UDP port 53. However, on Ubuntu, <code>systemd\u2011resolved<\/code> occupies port 53 by default. To resolve this port\u2011conflict issue, simply stop and disable the <code>systemd\u2011resolved<\/code> service:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">sudo systemctl disable systemd-resolved<br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If <em>\/etc\/resolv.conf<\/em> on your Ubuntu system is a symbolic link pointing to <em>\/run\/systemd\/resolve\/stub-resolv.conf<\/em>, it is recommended to remove this symlink:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">sudo unlink \/etc\/resolv.conf<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After that, create a regular file and configure the <code>nameserver<\/code> parameter as needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <code>systemd\u2011resolved<\/code> service is not enabled by default on Debian systems (great!), so this problem does not occur there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>miniDNServer listens for DNS query messages from clients on the standard UDP port 53. However, on Ubuntu, systemd\u2011resolved occupies port 53 by default. To resolve this port\u2011conflict issue, simply stop and disable the systemd\u2011resolved service: sudo systemctl disable systemd-resolved If \/etc\/resolv.conf on your Ubuntu system is a symbolic link pointing to \/run\/systemd\/resolve\/stub-resolv.conf, it is recommended to remove this symlink: sudo unlink \/etc\/resolv.conf After that, create a regular file and configure the nameserver parameter as needed. The systemd\u2011resolved service is not&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myvoipapp.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/10\/some-issues-running-minidnserver-on-ubuntu\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[397,134,171,398,20],"class_list":["post-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-products","tag-397","tag-debian","tag-dns","tag-systemd-resolved","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myvoipapp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myvoipapp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myvoipapp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvoipapp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvoipapp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvoipapp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvoipapp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myvoipapp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvoipapp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvoipapp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}