[Dnsmasq-discuss] I've lost my ability to resolve local machine names without a domain suffix
Geert Stappers
stappers at stappers.nl
Sat Oct 19 20:00:27 BST 2019
On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 07:31:49PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> I've run dnsmasq for several years on my small home LAN. I'm running
> dnsmasq on a raspberry-pi and most of the client machines on the LAN
> are linux (xubuntu).
>
> I've suddenly lost the ability to resolve local machine names without
> a domain suffix, e.g.:-
>
> On the Raspberry Pi itself:-
>
> chris at newdns$ host esprimo
> Host esprimo not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
> chris at newdns$ host esprimo.zbmc.eu
> esprimo.zbmc.eu has address 192.168.1.3
> chris at newdns$
>
> ... and on a Linux machine on the LAN:-
>
> chris$ host t470
> Host t470 not found: 2(SERVFAIL)
> chris$ host t470.zbmc.eu
> t470.zbmc.eu has address 192.168.1.92
> chris$
>
>
> So what's gone wrong/changed? The raspberry pi is pretty up to date:-
>
> chris at newdns$ uname -a
> Linux newdns 4.19.66-v7+ #1253 SMP Thu Aug 15 11:49:46 BST 2019 armv7l GNU/Linux
> chris at newdns$ more /etc/issue
> Raspbian GNU/Linux 9 \n \l
> chris at newdns$ dnsmasq --version
> Dnsmasq version 2.76 Copyright (c) 2000-2016 Simon Kelley
> Compile time options: IPv6 GNU-getopt DBus i18n IDN DHCP DHCPv6 no-Lua TFTP conntrack ipset auth DNSSEC loop-detect inotify
>
> This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> Dnsmasq is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
> under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or 3.
> chris at newdns$
>
> I don't *think* I've changed anything in /etc/dnsmasq.conf recently.
>
> Help!! :-)
On a Linux system
grep -e search -e domain /etc/resolv.conf
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