Hey guys, I want to install discourse locally in a vmware ubuntu 21.04 vm and get this error: ./launcher bootstrap app cd /pups && git pull && git checkout v1.0.3 && /pups/bin/pups --stdin fatal: unable to access ‘GitHub - discourse/pups: Simple yaml based bootstrapper for Linux machines · GitHub’: Could not resolve host: github.com e0146dd79cd1704e68b8c6aab0168f269af67c8eac4880a7c2ed4276e78031f2 ** FAILED TO BOOTSTRAP ** please scroll up and look for earlier error messages, there may be more than one. ./discourse-doctor may help diagnose the problem. when I try to clone it in /tmp, though, it works /tmp# git clone GitHub - discourse/pups: Simple yaml based bootstrapper for Linux machines · GitHub Cloning into ‘pups’… remote: Enumerating objects: 477, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (136/136), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (97/97), done. remote: Total 477 (delta 60), reused 94 (delta 33), pack-reused 341 Receiving objects: 100% (477/477), 83.41 KiB | 1.63 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (233/233), done. An nslookup also work (surprise surprise :slight_smile: ) nslookup github.com Server: 127.0.0.53 Address: 127.0.0.53#53 Non-authoritative answer: Name: github.com Address: 140.82.121.4 Any ideas? Thanks alot guys!

It looks like your docker install is having dns issues.

בעיות באתחול discourse ב-vmware

Wurzelseppi 7 בנובמבר,‏ 2021,‏ 11:15am 3

Hmmmm, on a cloud instance it worked flawlessly … I´m closing this here

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