When editing /etc/lxc/dnsmasq.conf, changes to no take effect right away. Steps below are untested,
# Personally don't like what I see here... sudo service lxc-net restart sudo killall -s SIGHUP dnsmasq # this command did not appear to work and there was no way to do apt-get install killall # Tried this and it did noot work http://seminar.io/2014/07/27/dns-resolution-for-lxc-in-ubuntu-trusty/ sudo service lxc-net stop sudo service lxc-net start