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Apt-get time out on docker-container

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#1

General information:
I have a docker container running on Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS.
The Container itself runs on ubuntu aswell.
I’m behind a corporate proxy.

Problem:
When I try to run “apt-get update” I get a “connection timed out” error every time.
When I try to ping a ip, it just gets stuck and doesnt respond.

What I tried:

  • edited the /etc/default/docker for DNS and proxy
  • edited /etc/systemd/system/docker.service.d/http-proxy.conf

I have full internet-access on my host maschine. When I run apt-get update or any other command on the docker container, it recognizes the ip of the service but then just times out.

==> Running the quorum-maker (https://github.com/synechron-finlabs/quorum-maker#setting-up-quorum-network-on-multiple-machines)

Hope someone can help.

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#2

Did you launch the container with Docker networking enabled?

I’m not sure what you mean by, ‘it recognizes the ip of the service.’ Are you saying it properly resolves DNS?

#3

I have same problem now.

vagrant1337, do you fix it?

#4

Huff!

I solve my problem by:
RUN echo ‘Acquire::http::Proxy “http://proxy…:80”; Acquire::https::Proxy
“http://proxy…:80”;’ >> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/httpproxy

inside Dockerfile.

#5

Hi,

same problem here.
I’m behind a corporate proxy. The host system is able to reach the Internet via proxy and custom DNSs.
So, based on what I find in the official documentation, these are the steps I did:

  • Create a file called /etc/systemd/system/docker.service.d/http-proxy.conf and inserted the Proxy configuration
  • systemctl daemon-reload && systemctl restart docker
  • systemctl show --property=Environment docker shows that the new Proxy variable correctly set
  • I also configured the corporate DNS IPs in /etc/docker/daemon.json to make sure the proxy is resolved within the container

After that, I wanted to test if the Internet connection works within a container:
docker run -it ubuntu bash and try to perform an apt-get update

root@2496ee44ee0c:/# apt-get update
Err:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
  Could not connect to proxy.corporate.com:8080 (10.0.0.1), connection timed out
Err:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease
  Could not connect to proxy.corporate.com:8080 (10.0.0.1), connection timed out
Err:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease
  Unable to connect to proxy.corporate.com:8080:
Err:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease
  Unable to connect to proxy.corporate.com:8080:
Reading package lists... Done
W: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/bionic/InRelease  Could not connect to proxy.corporate.com:8080 (10.0.0.1), connection timed out
W: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/bionic-updates/InRelease  Unable to connect to proxy.corporate.com:8080:
W: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/bionic-backports/InRelease  Unable to connect to proxy.corporate.com:8080:
W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/bionic-security/InRelease  Could not connect to proxy.corporate.com:8080 (10.0.0.1), connection timed out
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

If I type env I can see the HTTP_PROXY and http_proxy variables are both set and the /etc/resolv.conf file shows the DNS used by the corporate.

I have also set net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 on my Centos 7 installation, but no luck with it. There’s no way to reach the proxy from within the container. Please help.