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Harrison Nguyen
Harrison Nguyen

Reputation: 126

Consul.IO - How to public service domain in local network for DNS Lookup

In Windows, when I setup Consul service for Service discovery in local network, I used DNS Interface for query service. But when I query service with this command

dig -x 127.0.0.1 -p 53 consul.service.consul +short

And it returned nothing. Currently, my local network DNS address is 10.18.200.103. But when I changed to Consul server 10.18.200.202, it worked and return correct data. I want to know how can my local DNS server find the domain of Consul services without changing DNS to Consul server

Upvotes: 5

Views: 1232

Answers (1)

Eugene
Eugene

Reputation: 7258

You can set your local DNS as recursor in consul config, then set consul as your primary DNS server and your normal DNS as secondary. This will pass requests through consul first.

If consul is up, it will resolve *.consul domain and pass everything else to recursors. If consul is down, OS will pass request to secondary DNS and it will still end up resolved.

"recursors": [ "10.18.200.103" ],

https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/dns.html

Upvotes: 2

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