[Bug 1727237] Re: systemd-resolved is not finding a domain

[Mark Shuttleworth]

Yes, this is a captive portal situation on up-to-date 17.10. The captive
portal popup fails with a DNS error looking for
securelogin.arubanetworks.com and then hilarity ensues. Manually editing
/etc/resolv.conf to use one of these DNS servers makes it all work. So
the problem is systemd-resolved which is the default resolv.conf:

~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf 
# This file is managed by man:systemd-resolved(8). Do not edit.
#
# 127.0.0.53 is the systemd-resolved stub resolver.
# run "systemd-resolve --status" to see details about the actual nameservers.
nameserver 127.0.0.53

search invitados

It's all NM:

~$ cat /etc/netplan/01-network-manager-all.yaml 
# Let NetworkManager manage all devices on this system
network:
  version: 2
  renderer: NetworkManager

Should /etc/resolv.conf be a symlink?

libnss-resolve is not installed.

systemd-resolve --status shows the two local DNS servers, as above.

~$ systemd-resolve --status | cat -
Global
          DNSSEC NTA: 10.in-addr.arpa
                      16.172.in-addr.arpa
                      168.192.in-addr.arpa
                      17.172.in-addr.arpa
                      18.172.in-addr.arpa
                      19.172.in-addr.arpa
                      20.172.in-addr.arpa
                      21.172.in-addr.arpa
                      22.172.in-addr.arpa
                      23.172.in-addr.arpa
                      24.172.in-addr.arpa
                      25.172.in-addr.arpa
                      26.172.in-addr.arpa
                      27.172.in-addr.arpa
                      28.172.in-addr.arpa
                      29.172.in-addr.arpa
                      30.172.in-addr.arpa
                      31.172.in-addr.arpa
                      corp
                      d.f.ip6.arpa
                      home
                      internal
                      intranet
                      lan
                      local
                      private
                      test

Link 7 (wwp0s20f0u6i12)
      Current Scopes: none
       LLMNR setting: yes
MulticastDNS setting: no
      DNSSEC setting: no
    DNSSEC supported: no

Link 4 (wlp4s0)
      Current Scopes: DNS LLMNR/IPv4 LLMNR/IPv6
       LLMNR setting: yes
MulticastDNS setting: no
      DNSSEC setting: no
    DNSSEC supported: no
         DNS Servers: 208.67.222.222
                      208.67.220.220
          DNS Domain: invitados

Link 2 (enp0s31f6)
      Current Scopes: none
       LLMNR setting: yes
MulticastDNS setting: no
      DNSSEC setting: no
    DNSSEC supported: no

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Title:
  systemd-resolved is not finding a domain

Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I have an odd network situation that I have so far managed to narrow
  down to the inability to resolve a domain via systemd-resolved which
  is resolvable with nslookup. If I use nslookup against the two
  nameservers on this network I get answers for the domain, but ping
  says it is unable to resolve the same domain (as do browsers and
  crucially the captive portal mechanism).

  Here are details:

  NSLOOKUP:

  ~$ nslookup securelogin.arubanetworks.com 208.67.220.220
  Server:		208.67.220.220
  Address:	208.67.220.220#53

  Non-authoritative answer:
  Name:	securelogin.arubanetworks.com
  Address: 172.22.240.242

  ~$ nslookup securelogin.arubanetworks.com 208.67.222.222
  Server:		208.67.222.222
  Address:	208.67.222.222#53

  Non-authoritative answer:
  Name:	securelogin.arubanetworks.com
  Address: 172.22.240.242

  
  PING:

  ~$ ping securelogin.arubanetworks.com
  ping: securelogin.arubanetworks.com: Name or service not known
  mark at mark-X1Y2:~$ 

  
  DIG:

  ~$ dig @208.67.222.222 securelogin.arubanetworks.com

  ; <<>> DiG 9.10.3-P4-Ubuntu <<>> @208.67.222.222 securelogin.arubanetworks.com
  ; (1 server found)
  ;; global options: +cmd
  ;; Got answer:
  ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 9416
  ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

  ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
  ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
  ;; QUESTION SECTION:
  ;securelogin.arubanetworks.com.	IN	A

  ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
  arubanetworks.com.	1991	IN	SOA	dns5.arubanetworks.com. hostmaster.arubanetworks.com. 1323935888 3600 200 1209600 86400

  ;; Query time: 34 msec
  ;; SERVER: 208.67.222.222#53(208.67.222.222)
  ;; WHEN: Wed Oct 25 10:31:10 CEST 2017
  ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 144

  
  MORE DIG:

  ~$ dig securelogin.arubanetworks.com

  ; <<>> DiG 9.10.3-P4-Ubuntu <<>> securelogin.arubanetworks.com
  ;; global options: +cmd
  ;; Got answer:
  ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 3924
  ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

  ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
  ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 65494
  ;; QUESTION SECTION:
  ;securelogin.arubanetworks.com.	IN	A

  ;; Query time: 0 msec
  ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.53#53(127.0.0.53)
  ;; WHEN: Wed Oct 25 10:34:01 CEST 2017
  ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 58

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