diff --git a/.woodpecker/build-3.yml b/.woodpecker/build-3.yml
index 4197023..fa933cf 100644
--- a/.woodpecker/build-3.yml
+++ b/.woodpecker/build-3.yml
@@ -194,16 +194,14 @@ steps:
     environment:
       NODE_OPTIONS: "--dns-result-order=ipv4first"
     commands:
+      - echo "=== Pinning registry.npmjs.org to IPv4 in /etc/hosts ==="
+      - REGISTRY_IP=$(wget -4 -q -O- https://dns.google/resolve?name=registry.npmjs.org\&type=A 2>/dev/null | sed -n 's/.*"data":"\([0-9.]*\)".*/\1/p' | head -1)
+      - echo "Resolved registry.npmjs.org to $REGISTRY_IP"
+      - if [ -n "$REGISTRY_IP" ]; then echo "$REGISTRY_IP registry.npmjs.org" >> /etc/hosts; else echo "104.16.1.35 registry.npmjs.org" >> /etc/hosts; fi
+      - cat /etc/hosts
       - echo "=== npm/node versions ==="
       - node --version
       - npm --version
-      - echo "=== Configuring npm for K8s DNS stability ==="
-      - npm config set maxsockets 3
-      - npm config set fetch-retries 5
-      - npm config set fetch-retry-mintimeout 20000
-      - npm config set fetch-retry-maxtimeout 120000
-      - npm config set fetch-timeout 300000
-      - npm config set loglevel http
       - echo "=== Starting npm ci ==="
       - cd frontend && npm ci
     backend_options: