[Dnsmasq-discuss] DNS forwarding + search domain/suffix

[Richard Fogle]

Hello,

I'm using dnsmasq as a DNS forwarder and I'm having a tough time finding a piece of functionality, I'm almost convinced I'm missing something.  Instead of posting one of my many test configurations this is what I'm trying to do:

1.  Forward DNS requests to DNS server DNS1.
2.  Have dnsmasq listen on loopback.
3.  Set the /etc/resolv.conf to resolve to loopback; disable resolv.conf lookup in the conf file

This works great except for one thing - resolving local hostnames that only DNS1 would know.  For example, if I lookup "www.domain.com" the masq works perfectly.  If I use just a single hostname that should have a search domain appended to it (I tried expand-domains, domain, domain-suffix, etc, but they seem to be more tied to DHCP) it won't resolve or append the search domain.  I'm not seeing anything specific to 'search domain' in the man page.  DNS1 is authoritative to what would be the search domain.  What am I missing?  

Regards,

Rich