cc @shykes, this issue was automatically assigned to you by Gordon

I think this is not that easy, if you do this, on commit, the modifications on /etc/host won't be saved.

/cc @creack @crosbymichael

You're right, just tested.

I'll see if i can fix this.

I believe the issue here is that every time you run the image, the hostname changes, so /etc/hosts has to change to match, which means your own changes would have to be blown away. Would it be difficult to add something like /etc/hosts.before and/or /etc/hosts.after that automatically get added to the readonly version on run? I'm not saying I see a clear use case for it, but it's certainly an option to consider if adding to /etc/hosts arbitrarily is something we decide is a good thing for images to be able to do.

the @tianon proposal could work, even though not ideal.
But we won't be able to mount /etc/hosts in RW as it is implemented right now. If we were to do that, the container could pollute the host.

Right, it's not an easy fix so I decided to use dnsmasq instead.
Please see #1951 (comment)

@fabiofalci Are you still interested in completing this?

@crosbymichael clearly my pull request is not enough and my workaround is working for me.

And it seems we have more thing to do about these files, issue #2267.
So I think you can close this pr.

@fabiofalci Thanks for following up with this.

Hi guys,

Is this change available in 0.11.1?
I use 0.11.1 to build a image, but looks like /etc/hosts is still read only.