i'm trying to register a git runner on my company local network server, gitlab is working fine with self singed certificate, but when trying to register a git runner like this
sudo gitlab-runner register --tls-ca-file=/home/gitlab-runner/certs/git.crt
then pasting the git URL
Please enter the gitlab-ci coordinator URL (e.g. https://gitlab.com/)
https://git.mycompany/
then the token:
Please enter the gitlab-ci token for this runner:
TOKEN
and then the description and the tags, then i get this error:
ERROR: Registering runner... failed
runner=TOKEN status=couldn't execute POST against https://git.mycompany/api/v4/runners:
Post https://git.mycompany/api/v4/runners:
dial tcp: lookup git.mycompany on 127.0.0.53:53:
no such host
PANIC: Failed to register this runner. Perhaps you are having network problems
i'm not using docker, just normal setup, please any help and many thanks in advance

UPDATE:
i added the nameserver for the DNS server to /etc/resolv.conf and the last error gone but i have new error:
x509: certificate has expired or is not yet valid
even i'm registering the runner with the .crt as the documentation and with
sudo gitlab-runner register --tls-ca-file /path/to/some-host-gitlab.com.crt
it's self signed certificate

UPDATE
the certificate valid from 6/5/2019 to 7/5/2019 is that matters if it's a self signed certificate ?

If you are running Gitlab using the docker image there: https://hub.docker.com/r/gitlab/gitlab-ce, it's possible to run pipelines by exposing the local docker.
To register the runner with GitLab first you need to get a registration token from the GitLab web interface. It is generated by GitLab and it can be found in your projects settings under settings/ci_cd/Set up a specific Runner manually .
Regarding the DNS issue, you have to change the DNS server in the /etc/resolv.confand set your nameserver to your DNS.
For the certificates, Gitlab runner by default checks the system certificates store and verifies Gitlab server against CA's stored in system. To add your certificate to the system you should do add your trusted certificate to /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/ and do sudo update-ca-certificates. Or you can set the certificate as a parameter --tls-ca-file when registering the runner.
I would suggest creating a new certificate with more validation days. (Don't forget to change the certificate path in gitlab's config in apache2 or ngix.
Looks like issues with name resolution. can you please verify the reachability of dns server?
From logs, i can see it is trying to resolve from the host itself
dial tcp: **lookup git.mycompany on **127.0.0.53:53:**** no such host
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