Missing search domain in AppVMs

[haggis]

It seems that the search domain which is configured by sys-net network manager will not be inherited to any AppVM. Inside /etc/resolv.conf of each AppVM the search entry is missing while inside sys-net it is there.
The problem occurs either if network manger gets it via DHCP or by static configuration.
Currently I am using the ugly workaround with overwriting the resolv.conf inside /rw/config/rc.local of earch AppVM but I hope there is a better solution.

[MellowPoison]

Related github issue:

DNS search domains in AppVMs

[haggis]

I configured my system as it is described by @the2nd but that’s only working when the AppVM is currently running. If it’s halted and started after NetworkManager start it will not get the search domain from sys-net. Or do I have misunderstood something?

[MellowPoison]

You can listen for domain-unpaused events in dom0 and run the update_dns_search.sh script when qubes will be unpaused like this:

Add custom events to be handled by `qubes.events.EventDispatcher`

I would like to make custom events to be listened by the qubes.events.EventDispatcher. So currently, if I would like to do something on domain startup I could do something like this: import qubesadmin.events import qubesadmin import asyncio def print_starting_domain(*args, **kwargs): print(args) print(kwargs) qubes = qubesadmin.Qubes() dispatcher = qubesadmin.events.EventsDispatcher(qubes) dispatcher.add_handler("domain-start", print_start_domain) loop = asyncio.new_event_loop() a…

[haggis]

Thank you @MellowPoison that’s much better now even if I have to put the update_dns_search.sh into every template.