[Dnsmasq-discuss] localdomain non-responsive without edns on ubuntu 14.04

[Justin Karneges]

Hi list,

I noticed a weird issue on Ubuntu 14.04, which installs dnsmasq 2.68. If I
try to look up an A record for a non-existent host within the "localdomain"
domain without edns, the server is unresponsive.

In other words, these commands all get a response from 127.0.0.1 in some
way (NXDOMAIN or empty) :

  dig nosuchhost.localdomain
  dig nosuchhost.foo
  dig nosuchhost
  dig nosuchhost.foo +noedns
  dig nosuchhost +noedns

whereas, this command hangs:

  dig nosuchhost.localdomain +noedns

  ; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-3ubuntu0.7-Ubuntu <<>> nosuchhost.localdomain +noedns
  ;; global options: +cmd
  ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

This issue does not appear to be present in Ubuntu 15.10, which uses
dnsmasq 2.75.

Was this a bug in dnsmasq that was fixed? Or a configuration difference
between the two OS versions?

Thanks,
Justin
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