1. Create a pod with busybox:1.32.0-musl 2. Enter the pod , and do nslookup commond ,such as nslookup google.com 3. Coredns' log shows only google.com. is send. 4 .Run commond nslookup google 5. Coredns' log shows each search item is appended. Also busybox:1.32.0-glic follows the same process. The /etc/resolv.conf in pod as bellow: nameserver 172.16.253.163 search default.svc.cluster.local svc.cluster.local cluster.local options ndots:5 According the definations for search and ndots in /etc/resolv.conf , the nslookup should append each item before do the last reqeust nslookup google.com.