dnsproxy software package provides proxy for DNS queries, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install dnsproxy
dnsproxy is installed in your system.
Make ensure the dnsproxy package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep dnsproxy *
You will get with dnsproxy package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Network |
| Package | dnsproxy |
| Version | 1.16-0.1build1 |
| Description | proxy for DNS queries |
| Sub Section | Net |