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Troubleshooting Docker
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Troubleshooting Docker

by Vaibhav Kohli, Rajdeep Dua, John Wooten
March 2017
Intermediate to advanced
290 pages
5h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
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Configuring DNS

Docker provides hostname and DNS configuration for each container without building a custom image. It overlays the /etc files inside the container with virtual files where it can write new information.

This can be seen by running the mount command inside the container. Containers receive the same /resolv.conf as of the host machine when they are created initially. If a host's /resolv.conf file is modified, it will be reflected in the container's /resolv.conf file only when the container is restarted.

In Docker, you can set the dns options in two ways:

  • Using docker run --dns=<ip-address>
  • In the Docker daemon file, add DOCKER_OPTS="--dns ip-address"

Tip

You can also specify the search domain using --dns-search=<DOMAIN>.

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ISBN: 9781783552344