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I have an Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS host. It is configured to use dnsmasq for DNS forwarding, rather than use resolv.conf populated with nameservers. The configuration is standard wherein resolv.conf just has:

nameserver 127.0.0.1
search redacted.searchfield.com

The host's configured /etc/resolv.dnsmasq has 4 nameservers configured. When I restart the dnsmasq service, it points to 3 nameservers that were configured on the host at one time (but no longer), and writes them automatically to /var/run/dnsmasq/resolv.conf, ignoring the 4 defined nameservers in /etc/resolv.dnsmasq.

I can get the service to properly read the correct nameservers if I enter the four of them in /var/run/dnsmasq/resolv.conf and leave the dnsmasq service running. However, if I restart the service it just points to these 3 old nameservers again.

Is this cached somewhere? I'm not using nscd here. I'm wondering if maybe the resolvconf service is causing an issue, and should not be run alongside dnsmasq?

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I have decided to stop resolvconf and have noticed that after restarting dnsmasq the correct nameservers are written/consumed in /var/run/dnsmasq/resolv.conf.

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