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dnsmasq package

  1. Bug #998712
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 998712

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Simon Kelley (simon-thekelleys) wrote : Re: [Bug 998712] [NEW] dnsmasq integration into name resolution broken

On 13/05/12 11:00, Wolf Rogner wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> dnsmasq does not resolve DNS names correcty.
>
> Applications like Thunderbird or tools like ssh rely on working name
> resolution. However, if there never was a working name resolution,
> dnsmasq never gets to know about the DNS names.
>
> Setup:
>
> private network: 192.168.0.x/24
> domain mydomain.intern
> server: 192.168.0.1 hostname s1
> dhcp (.100 - .200) and bind running, postfix and dovecot running
> client: 192.168.0.100 (dhclient)
>
> /etc/resolv.conf
> ...
> nameserver 127.0.0.1
> search mydomain.intern
>
> /var/run/nm-dns-dnsmasq.conf
> server=192.168.0.1
>
> Open Thunderbird -> Thunderbird fails to open s1
> ssh admin@s1 -> ssh: Could not resolve hostname s1: Name or service not known
>
> Adding
> nameserver 192.168.0.1
> to /etc/resolv.conf
>
> resolves the issue immediately
>
> calling sudo resolvconf -u
>
> creates the lookup problem immediately again

Please could you add the output from

dig s1

run when DNS is broken to this bug report, also

dig @192.168.0.1 s1

Cheers,

Simon.