$ host -t soa local Host local not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) zigford, are you sure that this command is correct? host tries to interpret local as hostname.
$ host -t soa hostname hostname.domain.local has no SOA record I am using dnsmasq as dns server (look at one of my previous posts for more details). $ host -a hostname Trying "hostname.domain.local" ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 5071 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;hostname.domain.local. IN ANY ;; ANSWER SECTION: hostname.domain.local. 0 IN A XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX Received 62 bytes from XXX.XXX.XXX.YYY#53 in 3 ms For now i have changed my tld to ".site" => Problem is gone, I am happy again ;) -- problems resolving fully qualified domain names on Kubuntu feisty https://launchpad.net/bugs/80900 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs