Re: [ALUG] SSH clients

On 14 June 2017 at 16:27, Chris Green cl@isbd.net wrote:

The basic reason is that 17.04 doesn't use the 'dnsmasq run by Network Manager' for local DNS cache, it has a systemd equivalent instead.

Thanks for the detailed explanation.

It *should* be able to look up unqualified names but can't for
some reason, this is an actual bug and has been reported.

Don't suppose you have a bug reference I can look up?

The systemd DNS treats multiple DNS entries in /etc/resolv.conf
differently from the previous system.  If the first one fails then
it uses the second and *continues* to use the second.  Previously
the DNS servers were tried in order.

As I understand it this is "normal" (if frustrating) behaviour and if dnsmasq did things differently then that might have been nice but not "normal". (Try putting two DNS entries into a Windows box, for example.)

For the present I have added a 'search' domain to /etc/resolv.conf (well, to the resolvconf configuration actually)

That didn't work when I tried it for some reason but I'll have another go.