Hi folks! I’m have a pretty basic setup (single machine running k3s, nothing fancy), my cluster runs fine and everything is good. But if I create an AMI/snapshot of the entire machine, and then restore it to another, DNS/networking on all pods is broken and doesn’t recover automatically. As soon as I restart k3s (

systemctl restart k3s

or reboot the machine) it all comes back, networking is fine again. It’s quite annoying to have to restart k3s manually after snapshot+restore of a machine, though - any idea why this would happen or how I can debug further?

Sounds like stale iptables rules... Hard to say without seeing the nodes - but I would compare the

iptables-save

output on a broken node vs a working one.

Yes, I think it’s stale iptables rules-you are correct. To workaround this I’m restarting k3s on startup now every 30s for 10 minutes (since restarts appear HA, this proves not too disruptive and things settle after about 5 minutes on the new machine from a restored AMI.)