Add an option to ignore local hosts file

[AlexHighTower]

Hello,

using latest 0.103.2 I found that it parse local /etc/hosts file and return addresses from it and return to clients wrong IP.
e.g., hosts have record
127.0.0.1 domain.name
and when client request domain.name agh return 127.0.0.1 instead of forwarding query to upstream...
I need to disable reading local hosts file

[ameshkov]

This is the intended behavior. Please explain why do you want to change it and why can't you edit the hosts file instead?

[AlexHighTower]

I'd prefer to have possibility disable reading local hosts file

hosts have higher priority of dns for local host and I can override some hosts for some purposes. plus I prefer local host domain name point to 127.0.0.1 instead of static or dynamic ip.
and what you've done? - you translate local host setting to all agh clients...
this is not acceptable!

[AlexHighTower]

in addition you broke another thing:
for example, there is domain example.com
it has A and MX records
if call host example.com
result will contain both A and MX records
if add example.com to /etc/hosts and ask host example.com
in this case only A record is returned and no MX

[Eyeborgs]

I'd prefer to have possibility disable reading local hosts file

I want to have a function like this too

[ammnt]

@ameshkov, yes, it must be definitely optional. I use four IP addresses (two ipv4 and two ipv6), but because of the hosts file, essentially only one ipv4 address works when I access the domain😒

[ameshkov]

Temporary solution - use AGH docker image

[Aikatsui]

Temporary solution - use AGH docker image

I also interest for this topic. "Add an option to ignore local hosts file"
Docker instance too apply it's etc/hosts #2085

[EugeneOne1]

The new option --no-etc-hosts was introduced in e671f43 and is available in the latest snapshots. The wiki section about flags is also updated. Could you please check if our solution works well for you?

[AlexHighTower]

The new option --no-etc-hosts was introduced in e671f43 and is available in the latest snapshots. The wiki section about flags is also updated. Could you please check if our solution works well for you?

I'd love to, but where can I get x64 linux binary for tests?

[EugeneOne1]

Here you can find the instructions for using unstable versions and also links for the precompiled binaries.

[EugeneOne1]

@AlexHighTower, hi, just a heads-up, we've messed up the feature in the initial snapshot and beta 2, so you probably shouldn't install it. Any edge release after 69f526b should be fine though. We're planning to release beta 3 on Monday or Tuesday (19th or 20th of April) which will also contain the fixed version. Apologies!

[EugeneOne1]

We'll close the issue for now. Please feel free to open new issues if the feature will cause any problems.

[celevra]

--no-etc-hosts is depricated now
what is the new way?

[vin047]

clients.runtime_sources.hosts to false in the config file.

source: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/wiki/Configuration#configuration-file

[tjharman]

Hi,
This option clients.runtime_sources.hosts: false isn't working.
My AdGuardHome (v0.107.43) is still using my /etc/hosts

Should I log a seperate issue or keep it contained within this one?

Thanks!

Edit: Just for clarity I'm not an idiot - I have stopped the AdGuardHome process before changing the line which isn't as written above, it's in the yaml file as thus:

clients:
  runtime_sources: 
    whois: true
    arp: true
    rdns: true
    dhcp: true 
    hosts: false

I have a log file with log.verbose: true to share (but I'd rather not post it publically, thanks)

[tjharman]

Sorry ignore my update here, I can see that #6610 exists.