diff --git a/ansible/roles/k3s-install/files/service_set_coredns_forwarding.conf b/ansible/roles/k3s-install/files/service_set_coredns_forwarding.conf
deleted file mode 100644
index 49a6751e..00000000
--- a/ansible/roles/k3s-install/files/service_set_coredns_forwarding.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-[Service]
-ExecStartPost=/usr/bin/timeout 30 /usr/libexec/k3s/update-coredns-forwarding.sh
diff --git a/ansible/roles/k3s-install/files/update-coredns-forwarding.sh b/ansible/roles/k3s-install/files/update-coredns-forwarding.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 36a448b5..00000000
--- a/ansible/roles/k3s-install/files/update-coredns-forwarding.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-set -eufo pipefail
-
-# The absolute path to the containerd socket.
-readonly CONTAINERD_SOCK='/run/k3s/containerd/containerd.sock'
-
-# The absolute path to the CoreDNS manifest file.
-readonly COREDNS_YAML='/var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/manifests/coredns-custom.yaml'
-
-get_file_mtime() {
-    # Get file "$1" mtime in Epoch seconds.
-    stat -c '%Y' "$1"
-}
-
-wait_for_file() {
-    # Wait for file "$1" to exist.
-    until [[ -e "$1" ]]; do
-        sleep 1
-    done
-}
-
-get_nameservers() {
-    # Get a list of DNS nameservers defined in /etc/resolv.conf.
-    if [[ -e /etc/resolv.conf ]]; then
-        awk '($1=="nameserver"){print $2}' /etc/resolv.conf
-    fi
-}
-
-restart_coredns_deployment() {
-    # Restart the CoreDNS deployment.
-    kubectl --kubeconfig /etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml \
-        apply -f $COREDNS_YAML
-    kubectl --kubeconfig /etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml --namespace kube-system \
-        rollout restart deployment coredns
-}
-
-update_coredns_forwarding() {
-    # Comment out "forward" line in the CoreDNS manifest (i.e., Corefile) if
-    # there are no DNS nameservers configured on the host. If the manifest
-    # was updated, restart CoreDNS.
-    local nameservers
-    mapfile -t nameservers < <(get_nameservers)
-    if [[ "${#nameservers[@]}" -eq 0 ]]; then
-        echo 'Disabling CoreDNS host forwarding ...'
-        sed -i 's/\(^\s\+\)forward \. \/etc\/resolv\.conf/\1#forward \. \/etc\/resolv\.conf/' "$COREDNS_YAML"
-        restart_coredns_deployment
-    else
-        echo 'Enabling CoreDNS host forwarding ...'
-        sed -i 's/\(^\s\+\)#forward \. \/etc\/resolv\.conf/\1forward \. \/etc\/resolv\.conf/' "$COREDNS_YAML"
-        restart_coredns_deployment
-    fi
-}
-
-main() {
-    wait_for_file "$CONTAINERD_SOCK"
-    wait_for_file "$COREDNS_YAML"
-    update_coredns_forwarding
-}
-
-main
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ansible/roles/k3s-install/tasks/main.yml b/ansible/roles/k3s-install/tasks/main.yml
index 82c69b84..34663dc5 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/k3s-install/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/k3s-install/tasks/main.yml
@@ -93,11 +93,6 @@
     src: "{{ role_path }}/files/service_set_RuntimeMaxSec.conf"
     dest: /usr/lib/systemd/system/k3s.service.d/
 
-- name: "copy update-coredns-forwarding file to dest"
-  copy:
-    src: "{{ role_path }}/files/service_set_coredns_forwarding.conf"
-    dest: /usr/lib/systemd/system/k3s.service.d/
-
 - name: "Create /usr/libexec/k3s directory if it does not exist"
   file:
     path: "{{ item }}"
@@ -106,11 +101,6 @@
   with_items:
     - /usr/libexec/k3s
 
-- name: "copy  update-coredns-forwarding to dest"
-  copy:
-    src: "{{ role_path }}/files/update-coredns-forwarding.sh"
-    dest: /usr/libexec/k3s/update-coredns-forwarding.sh
-    mode: 0755
 
 - name: "copy k3s-orphaned-pods-dir-clean.service to destination"
   copy: