Access LXD guests by name from host

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I have a solution to the problem of accessing LXD guests by name from the host. At least on bionic, which what I am currently running, the system resolver is systemd-resolved which can be configured to listen on different interfaces and to query different servers.

sudo systemd-resolve --interface lxdbr0 --set-dns 10.x.x.1 --set-domain lxd

Everything else stays as is. Now querying for a guest by name will return its IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.

The only remaining question is where to put that to make it permanent. I think the best place would at the end of the process setting up lxdbr0, but I’ve no clue how to do that.

Thanks

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Someone please answer to this guy. This information looks useful.

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You would need to create a network configuration file for the lxdbr0 interface, then specify there the DNS and Domain suffix.

I blogged about this at

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:smiley:

Thanks. Perfect.

And a great many thanks to Alexander for pressing the issue. :sunny: