[Dnsmasq-discuss] I've lost my ability to resolve local machine names without a domain suffix

[Geert Stappers]

On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 09:02:19PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 09:00:27PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:
> > 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.:-
> > > 
> > > ... 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$ 
> > > 
> > > 
  .....
> > > 
> > > Help!! :-)
> > 
> > On a Linux system
> >   grep -e search -e domain /etc/resolv.conf
> > 
>     chris$ grep -e search -e domain /etc/resolv.conf
>     search zbmc.eu
>     search zbmc.eu
>     chris$ 
> 
> Is that what you were asking me to do?
 
Yes.


> Strangely I seem to be able to resolve local names without a suffix
> now.  I have rebooted a few machines, maybe something simply got
> full/misconfigured and a reboot has cleared it up.

OK


Groeten
Geert Stappers
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