# Connection Refused Error Upon Restarting the Netmaker Server

### Issue

I've had CoreDNS enabled as a host and from time to time I get an error message when I try to restart the server with this command:

```bash
docker-compose down && docker-compose up -d
```

The error message is:

```
ERROR: Get "https://registry-1.docker.io/v2/": dial tcp: lookup registry-1.docker.io on [::1]:53: read udp [::1]:41083->[::1]:53: read: connection refused
```

### Resolution / Workaround

This is happening because there is no domain name resolver running on your server after taking down CoreDNS via `docker-compose down`. Note that `systemd-resolved` was disabled when you set CoreDNS as a host (done to prevent port conflict). Sometimes you can get away with it because of some lingering nameserver cache.

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Please follow these steps in order to resolve the issue:

{% stepper %}
{% step %}

### Start systemd-resolved temporarily

```bash
sudo systemctl start systemd-resolved.service
```

{% endstep %}

{% step %}

### Start the netmaker server

```bash
docker-compose up -d
```

{% endstep %}

{% step %}

### Stop and disable systemd-resolved again

```bash
sudo systemctl stop systemd-resolved.service
sudo systemctl disable systemd-resolved.service
```

{% endstep %}
{% endstepper %}


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