Modifying /etc/hosts causing issues

[purepani]

I am a NixOS user, and one of the changes NixOS makes is that /etc/hosts is symlinked from the nix store, which is read only.
The issue this causes is when using the DNS integration, since /etc/hosts can't be modified, nothing is populated into there.

I was also thinking this might cause other conflicts with other programs that might also try to modify /etc/hosts. Is there a way to work around this, or would that require integrating a different solution for dns resolution into netclient?

[mattkasun]

there is no workaround

[purepani]

Thanks,
I'll try and look harder for a solution on the Nixos side

[wexder]

@purepani I don't think there is solution on Nixos side. The security/file model doesn't allow write access to host file.
@mattkasun Are there any plans to integrate DNS management system instead of modifying /etc/hosts ?

[mattkasun]

No plans that I am aware of

[wexder]

@mattkasun so there's no chance of running netclient with dns integration on distributions like Nixos ?

[mattkasun]

Not with current implementation

[gigadjo]

One could still run a little DNS server, inside a VM, or even next to NM, that responds for whatever you want :-)
It would involve adding every host to this DNS, then pointing your clients to this DNS.

Dnsmasq is quite simple, and yet very powerfull :-)

Regards,