Ubuntu – Slow DNS resolution inside docker container

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I've stuck with a problem of a very slow DNS resolution inside docker container. Simple GET to a 'google.com' takes about 4s to finish while the same request on host takes 0.052 ms. Also request works perfectly if I send it to an IP address that's why I suggested DNS problem. I've searched for an answer most of them were about setting dns servers in a /etc/docker/daemon.json which I did but that didn't help my problem. Server runs on Ubuntu 16.04. I also have a dev server which runs same configurations but it works fine.

Host:

time curl -g 'google.com'

<HTML><HEAD><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<TITLE>301 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>
<H1>301 Moved</H1>
The document has moved
<A HREF="http://www.google.com/">here</A>.
</BODY></HTML>

real    0m0.052s
user    0m0.004s
sys 0m0.004s

time nslookup google.com

Server:     188.93.16.19
Address:    188.93.16.19#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:   google.com
Address: 173.194.73.102
Name:   google.com
Address: 173.194.73.139
Name:   google.com
Address: 173.194.73.100
Name:   google.com
Address: 173.194.73.113
Name:   google.com
Address: 173.194.73.138
Name:   google.com
Address: 173.194.73.101


real    0m0.013s
user    0m0.004s
sys 0m0.004s

Container:

time curl -g https://google.com

<HTML><HEAD><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<TITLE>301 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>
<H1>301 Moved</H1>
The document has moved
<A HREF="https://www.google.com/">here</A>.
</BODY></HTML>

real    0m4.592s
user    0m0.004s
sys 0m0.012s

time nslookup google.com

Server:     127.0.0.11
Address:    127.0.0.11#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:   google.com
Address: 64.233.165.139
Name:   google.com
Address: 64.233.165.101
Name:   google.com
Address: 64.233.165.102
Name:   google.com
Address: 64.233.165.113
Name:   google.com
Address: 64.233.165.100
Name:   google.com
Address: 64.233.165.138


real    0m4.029s
user    0m0.008s
sys 0m0.004s

daemon.json:

{
    "dns": ["188.93.16.19", "188.93.17.19", "8.8.8.8", "8.8.8.4"]
}

Best Answer

Solved the problem by removing every DNS server except 8.8.8.8 from daemon.json. This is the only one server that resolves domain fast in my case. Tested differrent servers via docker run --dns=<dns server> <image name> curl -g 'google.com'.

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