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I am running dnsmasq on Linux Mint 18.3 mainly to resolve a bunch of dev DNS names to localhost.

Recently I started using VPN connection and noticed that names of servers which are only available inside VPN network are not resolved:

ssh .... [email protected]
ssh: Could not resolve hostname privateserver.network: Name or service not known

If I stop dnsmasq daemon it works as expected and privateserver.network is available and can be connected.

Any advice on how to approach this issue would be much appreciated. Thanks!

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You need to configure the VPN startup/shutdown scripts to update the list of DNS servers dnsmasq uses to resolve requests. There is a dnsmasq settting that will cause it to update its server list when the file changes. You need to configure that as well, or trigger a reload of dnsmasq's configuration after the files changes.

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  • Thanks a lot for the lead. I will try digging in this direction.
    – Humanier
    May 3, 2018 at 13:16

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