Now I understand what you are getting at (took me a long time). I can confirm that my DNS server serves any request from inside the network. I have a log on the router monitoring outgoing traffic. Under NO circumstances is a DNS request going out UNLESS the internal server is down but the clients still have their DHCP settings.
I verify this regularly as part of my error testing procedures. This is why I even use an external DNS server as my bind forwards DNS requests in case it cannot resolve them itself. Now there could be a client timeout (which occures in very rare cases, say once a year per client). In that case, the browser (which is the only app that might get affected) will simply provide a 404 page and a reload usually works. None of my dnsmasqed clients requests from the external server when our internal bind is up. I will try to put dnsmasq into strict mode for testing. Get back to you with results after some time. Merry Christmas -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to 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-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
