I'm late but "late" is better than "never": *Can anyone explain what dnsmasq is doing here?* - query[A] = resolution request for IPv4 - From: obviously the source, as you already stated, your router's public address. - forwarded to: is the URL forwarding to the DNS servers that you configured for such kind of URLs, in case that no config there, is using the default DNS servers or your GW. - reply: the DNS Server is not being able to resolve the host because that domain doesn't exist (mymovies.home) and therefore is delivering that "NXDOMAIN" as reply - 192.168.1.124 is the IP that you have statically configured for mymovies So was, hope that somebody still finds this useful.