hello! I'm running netclient on a machine that doesn't allow editing of

/etc/hosts

(running NixOS). Two questions - is there and option to tell netclient not to try to edit it? - while running the daemon hostnames are not resolved. Is that supposed to happen anyway via CoreDNS? If so, can you suggest some troubleshooting pointers?

turn dns off for the node (in netmaker UI)

that indeed doesn't try to write to hosts anymore, and I get > [netclient] 2022-06-23 16:21:23 settng DNS off

not sure I understand your last comment

if I

ssh something.<base domain>

, I get

could not resolve

...

without dns on (and updating /etc/hosts), private dns for netmaker nodes is not supported

ok. so what is CoreDNS? :/

it's use has been deprecated ... still there because would like to use it in the future but getting it to work with all linux distros is extremely difficult

ok so no luck 🙂 I wonder it it would be possible to write to a different file/ Then maybe it could be used somehow, at user's discretion?

If you set environment.etc.hosts.mode = "0644";, you can modify the file as root. Note that changes made in this way will be discarded when switching configurations. I used this to make vagrant’s hostmanager work though, and it worked pretty smoothly.

I see, thanks. But ideally I think the second solution there seems better 🙂