Using a clean 17.04 install, I could observe the same problem. Against convention, our company is using .local as the internal DNS TLD.
As mentioned in #8 and #13 above, /etc/resolv.conf was symlinked to root@dell-e5470:~# ls -l /etc/resolv.conf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Apr 5 09:19 /etc/resolv.conf -> ../run/resolvconf/resolv.conf which contains --- # cat /run/resolvconf/resolv.conf # Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8) # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN # 127.0.0.53 is the systemd-resolved stub resolver. # run "systemd-resolve --status" to see details about the actual nameservers. nameserver 127.0.0.53 --- After removing the symlink /etc/resolv.conf and linking like this: # ln -s /run/systemd/resolve/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf ...thinks started working again. Now the file contains the DNS received via DHCP: ----- # cat /etc/resolv.conf # This file is managed by systemd-resolved(8). Do not edit. # # This is a dynamic resolv.conf file for connecting local clients directly to # all known DNS servers. # # Third party programs must not access this file directly, but only through the # symlink at /etc/resolv.conf. To manage resolv.conf(5) in a different way, # replace this symlink by a static file or a different symlink. # # See systemd-resolved.service(8) for details about the supported modes of # operation for /etc/resolv.conf. nameserver 1.2.3.4 search local.example.com example.local ----- ** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to systemd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1624320 Title: systemd-resolved appends 127.0.0.53 to resolv.conf alongside existing entries Status in systemd package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: systemd-resolved, or more precisely the hook script /lib/systemd/system/systemd-resolved.service.d/resolvconf.conf, causes resolvconf to add 127.0.0.53 to the set of nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf alongside the other nameservers. That makes no sense because systemd-resolved sets up 127.0.0.53 as a proxy for those other nameservers. The effect is similar to bug 1624071 but for applications doing their own DNS lookups. It breaks any DNSSEC validation that systemd-resolved tries to do; applications will failover to the other nameservers, bypassing validation failures. And it makes failing queries take twice as long. /etc/resolv.conf should have only 127.0.0.53 when systemd-resolved is active. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1624320/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp