On Tue, Jan 10, 2023, 12:10 PM Charles Curley < charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wrote:
> I seem to have hit an oddity in how dnsmasq operates for libvirt. > > I have two host machines each with several guests. One of those is also > the local samba server. Guests on the non-samba server can resolve the > samba server's host name correctly, so far without fail. > > Guests on the samba server sometimes get the correct IP address for the > samba server, and other times get an IP address for the samba server of > 127.0.1.1. That is the IP address provided in the host's /etc/hosts. > > I have a workaround of hard coding the IP address in the fstab entry, > but that's tacky. Is there a better way to handle this? > I would first want to find out why the samba server is doing that "sometimes" but not others. My first guess would be that you have a hostname identified somewhere that resolves to 2 different addresses, depending. And one or both may be defaulted addresses. But Charles you seem to be past those kinds of mistakes usually :-) -- > Does anybody read signatures any more? > > https://charlescurley.com > https://charlescurley.com/blog/ > >
