<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">This may be a more generic DNS question than a dnsmasq specific one, but seeing as I’m running dnsmasq I hoped someone on the list may be able to help me.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I can resolve a host name with and without the domain name suffix, but when I try to use an application to resolve the FQDN it fails. See below for an example. I am stumped as to why the “host” command can resolve the FQDN but other applications cannot. Any guidance would be very much appreciated.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">gaz@zeus:~$ host sg200-1</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">sg200-1.beerygaz.local has address 192.168.1.5</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">gaz@zeus:~$ host sg200-1.beerygaz.local</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">sg200-1.beerygaz.local has address 192.168.1.5</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">gaz@zeus:~$ ping sg200-1</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">PING sg200-1.beerygaz.local (192.168.1.5) 56(84) bytes of data.</div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">gaz@zeus:~$ ping sg200-1.beerygaz.local</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">ping: unknown host sg200-1.beerygaz.local</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">gaz@zeus:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">domain beerygaz.local</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">search beerygaz.local.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Monaco; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">nameserver 192.168.1.4</div></div></div></body></html>