[CentOS] CentOS 8 DNS resolution not working as expected

Thu Aug 6 11:18:48 UTC 2020
Pete Biggs <pete at biggs.org.uk>

> > man host
> > 
> >        -N ndots
> >            The number of dots that have to be in name for it to be considered absolute. The default value is that defined using
> >            the ndots statement in /etc/resolv.conf, or 1 if no ndots statement is present. Names with fewer dots are interpreted
> >            as relative names and will be searched for in the domains listed in the search or domain directive in
> >            /etc/resolv.conf.
> 
> As per man resolv.conf, the default setting hasn't changed. It is n=1 on all of CentOS 6/7/8.
> 

Does

   host -N2 foo.subdomain

work on CentOS 8?  Does it work if you put ndots: 2 in resolv.conf?

There may have been a change in behaviour - from the tests I've done it
seems more like it's fixing a bug/inconsistency somewhere because doing
 
   host -N1 foo.subdomain 

should not work, but it does on CentOS 7.

P.