[Dnsmasq-discuss] Trailing dots and the way dnsmasq handles hosts

[John Drake]

I have a not so serious question/problem regarding dnsmasq.

I'm new here so I must say that this dns server is by far the best one
ever made for local networks. Anyways let me get to the point. I have
a bunch of hostnames setup in /etc/hosts on my slackware box and
dnsmasq seems to be relaying that info just fine except for one minor
thing.

I can only ping it if I add a trailing . such as "ping maclap." and
"ping maclap" won't work (this is from client machines). I can run
"nslookup maclap" and it returns the correct ip. So my question is
obvious now, is there a way to ping local machines by their hostname
without the dot? It works with nslookup and dig but not with anything
else.

Thanks, John
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