[Dnsmasq-discuss] resolv-conf override does not seem to work for search

Matus UHLAR - fantomas uhlar at fantomas.sk
Wed Aug 19 09:04:44 BST 2020


On 18.08.20 12:48, Dave Sullivan wrote:
>Was trying to add a custom resolv-conf with multiple search domains.

>It doesn't seem like dnsmasq takes into account search setting in the
>customer resolv-conf but instead continues to use what is in
>/etc/resolv.conf
>
>Any thoughts on this behavior?

the 'search' list is there for clients, not for DNS servers.
DNS works with fully qualified domain names. 

Since dnsmasq is a DNS server, the search list doesn't affect it.

I guess no clients don't use other resolv.conf

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