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[Rhialto <rhialto@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've been reading through the lengthy discussion at bug #1003842
(dnsmasq sometimes fails to resolve private names in networks with non-
equivalent nameservers) which seems related. I'm about halfway so I
don't know what the resolution was in the end (if any). In any case the
discussion is very interesting. It explores the subject of non-
equivalent name servers (which I do have, since adding backup name
servers seems like it should be a good thing).

Meanwhile, on another machine on the same network, I run a more recent
non-LTS xubuntu (dnsmasq-base 2.71-1), and it doesn't have this problem.
Checking the syslog there, the events are mostly the same as I've quoted
above, but the dns server order at the end is the same as supplied by
dhcp.

I can see 3 reasons why the newer dnsmasq might work:
- some clever strategy from bug #1003842 was adopted
- the non-reversed order of the dns servers fixed it
- pure luck

I'm hoping it is one of the first 2 or the combination of both :-)

Meanwhile I've tried your workaround and it seems to work. I might add
though that I didn't choose to use dnsmasq but that was done by default
when installing. (That too, is discussed in #1003842).

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Title:
  dnsmasq reverses order of dns servers

Status in dnsmasq package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I have a carefully sorted order of dns servers that my dhcp server gives out.
  When booting lubuntu, I can't resolve names that should be resolvable by the first two name servers from the list.
  The names are local private names, but since the local nameserver is first, I expect them to resolve.
  But apparently because the order has been reversed, resolving fails.

  rhialto@glicca:~$ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
  Release:	14.04

  rhialto@glicca:~$ apt-cache policy dnsmasq-base
  dnsmasq-base:
    Installed: 2.68-1
    Candidate: 2.68-1
    Version table:
   *** 2.68-1 0
          500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  Extract from /var/log/messages (I munged a few numbers here and there).
  Note how the order at the end is the reverse of the first one.

  Apr 27 16:04:49 glicca NetworkManager[783]: <info> (eth0): DHCPv4 state changed nbi -> preinit
  Apr 27 16:04:49 glicca dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth0/00:22:xxxxxxxx
  Apr 27 16:04:49 glicca dhclient: Sending on   LPF/eth0/00:22:xxxxxxxx
  Apr 27 16:04:49 glicca dhclient: Sending on   Socket/fallback
  Apr 27 16:04:49 glicca dhclient: DHCPREQUEST of 10.0.0.14 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 (xid=0x72024df1)
  Apr 27 16:04:49 glicca ntpd[974]: Deferring DNS for 0.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org 1
  Apr 27 16:04:49 glicca ntpd[974]: Deferring DNS for 1.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org 1
  Apr 27 16:04:49 glicca ntpd[974]: Deferring DNS for 2.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org 1
  Apr 27 16:04:49 glicca ntpd[974]: Deferring DNS for 3.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org 1
  Apr 27 16:04:49 glicca dhclient: DHCPACK of 10.0.0.14 from 10.0.0.16
  Apr 27 16:04:49 glicca dhclient: bound to 10.0.0.14 -- renewal in 247908 seconds.
  Apr 27 16:04:49 glicca NetworkManager[783]: <info> (eth0): DHCPv4 state changed preinit -> reboot
  Apr 27 16:04:49 glicca NetworkManager[783]: <info>   address 10.0.0.14
  Apr 27 16:04:49 glicca NetworkManager[783]: <info>   prefix 24 (255.255.255.0)
  Apr 27 16:04:49 glicca NetworkManager[783]: <info>   gateway 10.0.0.16
  Apr 27 16:04:49 glicca NetworkManager[783]: <info>   hostname 'glicca.falu.nl'
  Apr 27 16:04:49 glicca NetworkManager[783]: <info>   nameserver '83.162.x.y'
  Apr 27 16:04:49 glicca NetworkManager[783]: <info>   nameserver '10.0.0.16'
  Apr 27 16:04:49 glicca NetworkManager[783]: <info>   nameserver '194.109.104.104'
  Apr 27 16:04:49 glicca NetworkManager[783]: <info>   nameserver '194.109.9.99'
  Apr 27 16:04:49 glicca NetworkManager[783]: <info>   nameserver '194.109.6.66'
  Apr 27 16:04:49 glicca NetworkManager[783]: <info>   domain name 'falu.nl'
  Apr 27 16:04:49 glicca NetworkManager[783]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 5 of 5 (IPv4 Configure Commit) scheduled...
  Apr 27 16:04:50 glicca NetworkManager[783]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 5 of 5 (IPv4 Commit) started...
  Apr 27 16:04:50 glicca avahi-daemon...
  Apr 27 16:04:51 glicca NetworkManager[783]: <info> (eth0): device state change: ip-config -> secondaries (reason 'none') [70 90 0]
  Apr 27 16:04:51 glicca NetworkManager[783]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 5 of 5 (IPv4 Commit) complete.
  Apr 27 16:04:51 glicca NetworkManager[783]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: disconnected -> inactive
  Apr 27 16:04:51 glicca NetworkManager[783]: <info> (eth0): device state change: secondaries -> activated (reason 'none') [90 100 0]
  Apr 27 16:04:51 glicca NetworkManager[783]: <info> NetworkManager state is now CONNECTED_GLOBAL
  Apr 27 16:04:51 glicca NetworkManager[783]: <info> Policy set 'Wired connection 1' (eth0) as default for IPv4 routing and DNS.
  Apr 27 16:04:51 glicca NetworkManager[783]: <info> DNS: starting dnsmasq...
  Apr 27 16:04:51 glicca NetworkManager[783]: <warn> dnsmasq not available on the bus, can't update servers.
  Apr 27 16:04:51 glicca NetworkManager[783]: <error> [1430143491.244228] [nm-dns-dnsmasq.c:396] update(): dnsmasq owner not found on bus: Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.dnsmasq': no such name
  Apr 27 16:04:51 glicca NetworkManager[783]: <warn> DNS: plugin dnsmasq update failed
  Apr 27 16:04:51 glicca NetworkManager[783]: <info> Writing DNS information to /sbin/resolvconf
  Apr 27 16:04:51 glicca anacron...
  Apr 27 16:04:51 glicca cron...
  Apr 27 16:04:51 glicca dnsmasq[1072]: started, version 2.68 cache disabled
  Apr 27 16:04:51 glicca dnsmasq[1072]: compile time options: IPv6 GNU-getopt DBus i18n IDN DHCP DHCPv6 no-Lua TFTP conntrack ipset auth
  Apr 27 16:04:51 glicca dnsmasq[1072]: DBus support enabled: connected to system bus
  Apr 27 16:04:51 glicca dnsmasq[1072]: warning: no upstream servers configured
  Apr 27 16:04:51 glicca whoopsie...
  Apr 27 16:04:52 glicca acpid...
  Apr 27 16:04:52 glicca NetworkManager[783]: <info> Activation (eth0) successful, device activated.
  Apr 27 16:04:52 glicca dbus[486]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' (using servicehelper)
  Apr 27 16:04:52 glicca NetworkManager[783]: <warn> dnsmasq appeared on DBus: :1.13
  Apr 27 16:04:52 glicca NetworkManager[783]: <info> Writing DNS information to /sbin/resolvconf
  Apr 27 16:04:52 glicca dnsmasq[1072]: setting upstream servers from DBus
  Apr 27 16:04:52 glicca dnsmasq[1072]: using nameserver 194.109.6.66#53
  Apr 27 16:04:52 glicca dnsmasq[1072]: using nameserver 194.109.9.99#53
  Apr 27 16:04:52 glicca dnsmasq[1072]: using nameserver 194.109.104.104#53
  Apr 27 16:04:52 glicca dnsmasq[1072]: using nameserver 10.0.0.16#53
  Apr 27 16:04:52 glicca dnsmasq[1072]: using nameserver 83.162.x.y#53

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