My guess is that this bug is fundamentally bug #1003842 with the twist that sometimes the lookup succeeds if the fully qualified internal domain name is given on the command line explicitly.
(I don't think it's a coincidence that both Wolf and Reggie are on networks with non-equivalent nameservers.) That is, using Wolf's example, "ping s4" fails because 's4' can't be resolved (as expected) and then 's4.rsb.intern' also can't be resolved because of bug #1003842. The remaining question is why "ping s4.rsb.intern" *does* work. And why did "dig s4 +search" succeed in Wolf's last experiment? It's possible that in these cases dnsmasq happened to talk to the internal nameserver instead of the external one. If this hypothesis is correct then running nm-dnsmasq in strict-order mode should also fix the problem. If you are running Ubuntu 12.10 then please try running nm-dnsmasq in strict-order mode. To put nm-dnsmasq into strict-order mode, create a file /etc/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d/strictorder with the single line "strict- order" and then "sudo restart network-manager". NM-dnsmasq should now be running in strict-order mode and everything should be working perfectly. :) This method doesn't work in Ubuntu 12.04 which lacks /etc/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d/. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to dnsmasq in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/998712 Title: domain name completion broken when dnsmasq is used To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dnsmasq/+bug/998712/+subscriptions -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
