DNS not working within docker containers when host uses dnsmasq and Google's DNS server are firewalled?

Question

The symptom is: the host machine has proper network access, but programs running within containers can\'t resolve DNS names (which may appear to be \"can\'t access the netwo

Answer 1

I just had to deal with this last night and eventually remembered that docker run has a set of options for handling it. I used --dns to specify the DNS server I want the container to use. Works like a champ and no need to hack my docker host. There are other options for the domain name and search suffixes.