On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 07:35:35AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 24 October 2017 23:46:47 Felix Miata wrote: > > > Gene Heskett composed on 2017-10-24 22:52 (UTC-0400): > > >> On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 20:31:05 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > >>>and made immutable. Particularly is the fact that /etc/resolv.conf > > >>> isn't a link to something else but contains: > > >>> > > >>>nameserver 192.168.XX.1 > > >>>search host dns > > >>>domain coyote.den > > > > ... > > Whereas my theory has always been WRT the search line, that it should > first search the /etc/hosts file for a name match, and failing that, > query my router, which is running dd-wrt which means its running > dnsmasq.
In order to do that, you want this: in /etc/nsswitch.conf: ... hosts: files dns ... Which is the standard for Debian and basically all other Linux distros that I know about. That tells the DNS resolver to look at /etc/hosts first, and then make a DNS query if /etc/hosts does not have an answer. Note that isn't in resolv.conf, it's in nsswitch.conf. -dsr-