$ sudo systemctl restart systemd-networkd We need to specify remote DNS server as our global, system-wide DNS server. However there are still outstanding issues with this feature – see systemd-networkd DHCP search domains option issue. Ideally, when using DHCP protocol, local domain names should be obtained from DHCP server instead of being specified explicitly in configuration file of network interface above. This way hostY.on.the.internet will be resolved exclusively by our global, remote DNS server. We specify with ~example that all domains ending in example are to be treated as route-only domains to get the following behavior (from description of this commit) :ĭNS servers which have route-only domains should only be used for the This way will be resolved exclusively by our local DNS server. Lookups for a hostname ending in one of the per-interface domains areĮxclusively routed to the matching interfaces. We specify local domains domainA.example domainB.example to get the following behavior (from rvice, systemd-resolved man page): In addition we need to specify (in the same section) local domains using Domains= option Domains=domainA.example domainB.example ~example Or specify its address explicitly using DNS= option: In the configuration file for local network interface (a file matching the name pattern /etc/systemd/network/*.network) we have to either specify we want to obtain local DNS server address from DHCP server using DHCP= option:

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