<p>I'm running Kubernetes 1.11, and trying to configure the Kubernetes cluster to check a local name server first. I read the instructions on the Kubernetes site for customizing CoreDNS, and used the Dashboard to edit the system ConfigMap for CoreDNS. The resulting corefile value is:</p>

<pre><code>.:53 {
    errors
    health
    kubernetes cluster.local in-addr.arpa ip6.arpa {
       pods insecure
       upstream    192.168.1.3 209.18.47.61
       fallthrough in-addr.arpa ip6.arpa
    }
    prometheus :9153
    proxy . /etc/resolv.conf
    cache 30
    reload
}
</code></pre>

<p>You can see the local address as the first upstream name server. My problem is that this doesn't seem to have made any impact. I have a container running with ping &amp; nslookup, and neither will resolve names from the local name server.</p>

<p>I've worked around the problem for the moment by specifying the name server configuration in a few pod specifications that need it, but I don't like the workaround.</p>

<p>How do I force CoreDNS to update based on the changed ConfigMap? I can see that it is a Deployment in kube-system namespace, but I haven't found any docs on how to get it to reload or otherwise respond to a changed configuration.</p>

<p>One way to apply Configmap changes would be to redeploy CoreDNS pods:</p>
<pre><code>kubectl rollout restart -n kube-system deployment/coredns
</code></pre>
