What kills me about 10.10 is that OSX doesn't even try to resolve a domain name if you're offline. I run dnsmasq locally, which handles all of my DNS requests, capturing .dev domains (resolving them to 127.0.0.1) and forwarding everything else to Google's servers. This is great as long as I'm connected to WiFi or Ethernet (both are configurable through system preferences) but if I'm travelling and don't have an active network connection - quite frequently, in my case - there's not even an attempt* to hit a DNS server. It just fails.

I'm so desperately need a fix to this that I'm wondering if there's some kind of a dongle I can plug into my ethernet or USB port to fake a LAN, just so I can use dnsmasq.

The only thing stopping me from wiping out OSX and using Linux full time is the necessity of running Sketch and the Adobe/MS Office suite for work purposes. :/