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. Similarly for amanda and 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? One possible way: non-virtual machines use a bind9 server. dnsmasq has an option, --no-hosts, to inhibit reading the hostnames in /etc/hosts. How do I feed that to dnsmasq? Thank you. root@hawk:~# cat /etc/debian_version 11.6 root@hawk:~# lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) Release: 11 Codename: bullseye root@hawk:~# pre libvirt dnsmasq qemu dnsmasq-base 2.85-1 amd64 gir1.2-libvirt-glib-1.0 3.0.0-1 amd64 ipxe-qemu 1.0.0+git-20190125.36a4c85-5.1 all libvirt0 7.0.0-3 amd64 libvirt-clients 7.0.0-3 amd64 libvirt-daemon 7.0.0-3 amd64 libvirt-daemon-config-network 7.0.0-3 all libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter 7.0.0-3 all libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc 7.0.0-3 amd64 libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu 7.0.0-3 amd64 libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox 7.0.0-3 amd64 libvirt-daemon-driver-xen 7.0.0-3 amd64 libvirt-daemon-system 7.0.0-3 amd64 libvirt-daemon-system-systemd 7.0.0-3 all libvirt-glib-1.0-0 3.0.0-1 amd64 python3-libvirt 7.0.0-2 amd64 qemu 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2 amd64 qemu-system-common 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2 amd64 qemu-system-data 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2 all qemu-system-gui 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2 amd64 qemu-system-x86 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2 amd64 qemu-utils 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2 amd64 root@hawk:~# -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/