[TriLUG] On resolving local names with dnsmasq

[Aaron Schrab]

At 10:18 -0400 05 Oct 2012, Brian Henning <bhenning at pineinst.com> wrote:
>I tried adding
>  nameserver 127.0.0.1
>to the end of /etc/resolv.conf, but that made no difference.

Since you say you put that at the end, I suspect that there are other 
nameserver lines in front of it, and those DNS servers are being checked 
first.  Try placing that one first in the resolv.conf file.