Hi,

My local server is running CentOS 7. The machine has two NICs and is acting as a gateway. For DHCP and DNS, I'm using Dnsmasq. I have a strange little problem with local hostname resolution. Before going into more details, here's my configuration.

[root@nestor:~] # ifconfig enp2s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 ether 2c:27:d7:15:54:a1 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 17122 bytes 17596130 (16.7 MiB) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 13426 bytes 2144915 (2.0 MiB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 device interrupt 18 memory 0xfe8e0000-fe900000

enp3s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 192.168.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.2.255 ether 00:22:64:8a:4c:c2 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 6597320 bytes 9692134059 (9.0 GiB) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 534283 bytes 57365155 (54.7 MiB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 device interrupt 16 memory 0xfe9e0000-fea00000

[root@nestor:~] # cat /etc/hostname nestor

[root@nestor:~] # cat /etc/hosts # /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.2.1 nestor.microlinux.lan nestor 192.168.2.252 hp-officejet.microlinux.lan hp-officejet 192.168.2.253 nas.microlinux.lan nas 192.168.2.254 wifi.microlinux.lan wifi

[root@nestor:~] # cat /etc/resolv.conf # /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 127.0.0.1

[root@nestor:~] # cat /etc/dnsmasq.conf # /etc/dnsmasq.conf domain-needed bogus-priv interface=enp3s0 dhcp-range=192.168.2.100,192.168.2.200,24h local=/microlinux.lan/ domain=microlinux.lan expand-hosts # Cloudflare server=1.1.1.1 server=1.0.0.1 # Google #server=8.8.8.8 #server=8.8.4.4 no-resolv # Google dhcp-host=D4:85:64:B2:B2:1B,alphamule,192.168.2.2 dhcp-host=00:1E:C9:43:A7:BF,bernadette,192.168.2.3 dhcp-host=00:1D:09:15:4A:D8,raymonde,192.168.2.4 dhcp-host=00:1E:C9:42:84:7B,amandine,192.168.2.5 dhcp-host=B8:CA:3A:D6:5A:43,1C:3E:84:32:7E:87,buzz,192.168.2.6 dhcp-host=90:E6:BA:CF:04:8F,64:70:02:9A:AC:93,balthazar,192.168.2.7 dhcp-host=08:00:27:00:00:01,centosbox,192.168.2.10 dhcp-host=08:00:27:00:00:02,susebox,192.168.2.11 dhcp-host=10:62:E5:D4:95:60,hp-officejet,192.168.2.252 dhcp-host=00:11:32:26:63:A5,nas,192.168.2.253

Now here's the problem. Some of the hostname are correctly resolved, while others are not. Here's what it looks like when invoked from the server.

[root@nestor:~] # host alphamule alphamule has address 192.168.2.2 [root@nestor:~] # host bernadette bernadette has address 192.168.2.3 [root@nestor:~] # host raymonde Host raymonde not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) [root@nestor:~] # host amandine Host amandine not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) [root@nestor:~] # host buzz [root@nestor:~] # host balthazar balthazar has address 192.168.2.7 [root@nestor:~] # host centosbox Host centosbox not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) [root@nestor:~] # host susebox Host susebox not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) [root@nestor:~] # host hp-officejet hp-officejet has address 192.168.2.252 [root@nestor:~] # host nas nas has address 192.168.2.253

Of course I could add all these hosts to /etc/hosts, but as far as I understand, this *should* work with the hosts appearing only in /etc/dnsmasq.conf. Or have I overlooked something ? Any suggestions ?

Cheers & happy new year,

Niki