Set up local DNS caching server on Mac with dnsmasq

brew install dnsmasq
sudo brew services start dnsmasq

Go into your System Preferences -> Network settings and add 127.0.0.1 at the top of your list of DNS servers. Make sure you have some upstream DNS servers listed underneath — when dnsmasq cannot read from the cache, this is where it will fetch the DNS records from.

$ dig google.com | grep -i time
;; Query time: 33 msec

$ dig google.com | grep -i time
;; Query time: 0 msec

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