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[rickbeton]

Hi,

Having just scanned loads of other posts, I can't find one that addresses this name resolution issue of mine.

I have a NAS server running Debian with Dnsmasq (local DNS and DHCP service). This is working well, including fetching upstream requests from my ISP's DNS service and caching them locally.

I have another PC not running Ubuntu which happily resolves DNS and non-DNS names. E.g.

ping hagrid.
ping hagrid

both work.

However, this is not the case on my Ubuntu PC. It is only able to resolve DNS names, not non-DNS names.

ping hagrid.

works but

ping hagrid

does not.

I have the standard nsswitch.conf and host.conf.

Can anyone help me put right my client PC problem?
TIA,
Rick

[Iowan]

The Ubuntu machine uses the same DNS? I seem to recall having similar problems with my dnsmasq server. I don't remember if it was the domain-needed option, or the expand-hosts option that finally made it work - probably the latter.

[rickbeton]

You're spot on with expand-hosts.

I enabled the expand-hosts option in the dnsmasq.conf file and restarted the dnsmasq service. Now it works fine.

Thanks for the tip!

Rick