[thomasreggi]

My server threw this today, which is a Node.js error I’ve never seen before:

Error: getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN my-store.myshopify.com:443
    at Object.exports._errnoException (util.js:870:11)
    at errnoException (dns.js:32:15)
    at GetAddrInfoReqWrap.onlookup [as oncomplete] (dns.js:78:26)

I’m wondering if this is related to the DynDns DDOS attack which affected Shopify and many other services today. Here’s an article about that.

My main question is what does dns.js do? What part of node is it a part of? How can I recreate this error with a different domain?

[xerq]

EAI_AGAIN is a DNS lookup timed out error, means it is a network connectivity error or proxy related error.

My main question is what does dns.js do?

• The dns.js is there for node to get ip address of the domain(in brief).

Some more info:
http://www.codingdefined.com/2015/06/nodejs-error-errno-eaiagain.html

[mateen]

@xerq pointed correctly, here’s some more reference
http://www.codingdefined.com/2015/06/nodejs-error-errno-eaiagain.html

i got the same error, i solved it by updating “hosts” file present under this location in windows os

C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc

Hope it helps!!

[radhe9254]

This is the issue related to hosts file setup.
Add the following line to your hosts file
In Ubuntu: /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1   localhost

In windows: c:\windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

127.0.0.1   localhost

[martin-bramwell]

The OP’s error specifies a host (my-store.myshopify.com).
The error I encountered is the same in all respects except that no domain is specified.

My solution may help others who are drawn here by the title “Error: getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN”

I encountered the error when trying to serve a NodeJs & VueJs app from a different VM from where the code was developed originally.

The file vue.config.js read :

 module.exports = {
   devServer: {
     host: 'tstvm01',
     port: 3030,
   },
 };

When served on the original machine the start up output is :

App running at:
- Local:   http://tstvm01:3030/ 
- Network: http://tstvm01:3030/

Using the same settings on a VM tstvm07 got me a very similar error to the one the OP describes:

 INFO  Starting development server...
 10% building modules 1/1 modules 0 activeevents.js:183                              
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

Error: getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN
    at Object._errnoException (util.js:1022:11)
    at errnoException (dns.js:55:15)
    at GetAddrInfoReqWrap.onlookup [as oncomplete] (dns.js:92:26)

If it ain’t already obvious, changing vue.config.js to read …

 module.exports = {
   devServer: {
     host: 'tstvm07',
     port: 3030,
   },
 };

… solved the problem.

[bastien]

If you get this error with Firebase Cloud Functions, this is due to the limitations of the free tier (outbound networking only allowed to Google services).

Upgrade to the Flame or Blaze plans for it to work.

[john-rix]

I started getting this error (different stack trace though) after making a trivial update to my GraphQL API application that is operated inside a docker container. For whatever reason, the container was having difficulty resolving a back-end service being used by the API.

After poking around to see if some change had been made in the docker base image I was building from (node:13-alpine, incidentally), I decided to try the oldest computer science trick of rebooting… I stopped and started the docker container and all went back to normal.

Clearly, this isn’t a meaningful solution to the underlying problem – I am merely posting this since it did clear up the issue for me without going too deep down rabbit holes.

[igor-jankovic]

I had a same problem with AWS and Serverless. I tried with eu-central-1 region and it didn’t work so I had to change it to us-east-2 for the example.

[diego-p.-steiner]

If you get this error from within a docker container, e.g. when running npm install inside of an alpine container, the cause could be that the network changed since the container was started.

To solve this, just stop and restart the container

docker-compose down
docker-compose up

Source: https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/32106#issuecomment-578725551

[mikemaccana]

As xerq’s excellent answer explains, this is a DNS timeout issue.

I wanted to contribute another possible answer for those of you using Windows Subsystem for Linux – there are some cases where something seems to be askew in the client OS after Windows resumes from sleep. Restarting the host OS will fix these issues (it’s also likely restarting the WSL service will do the same).

[daniel-danielecki]

Enabled Blaze and it still doesn’t work?

Most probably you need to set .env from the right path, require('dotenv').config({ path: __dirname + './../.env' }); won’t work (or any other path). Simply put the .env file in the functions directory, from which you deploy to Firebase.

[mbesson]

In my case the problem was the docker networks ip allocation range, see this post for details

[john]

I was having this issue on docker-compose. Turns out I forgot to add my custom isolated named network to my service which couldn’t be found.

TLDR; Make sure, in your compose file, you have your custom-networks defined on both services that need to talk to each other.

My error looked like this: Error: getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN minio-service. The error was coming from my server’s backend when making a call to the minio-service using the minio-service hostname. This tells me that minio-service‘s running service, was not reachable by my server‘s running service. The way I was able to fix this issue is I changed the minio-service in my docker-compose from this:

• docker-compose.yml

version: "3.8"

# ...

services:
  server:
    # ...
    networks:
      my-network:
    # ...
  minio-service:
    # ... (missing networks: section)

# ...

networks:
  my-network:

To include my custom isolated named network, like this:

• docker-compose.yml

version: "3.8"

# ...

services:
  server:
    # ...
    networks:
      my-network:
    # ...
  minio-service:
    # ...   
    networks:
      my-network:
    # ...

# ...

networks:
  my-network:

More details on docker-compose networking can be found here.

[ricardo-stands-with-ukraine]

In my case, connected to VPN, the error happens when running Ubuntu from inside Windows Terminal but doesn’t happen when opening Ubuntu directly from Windows (not from inside the Windows Terminal)

[smac89]

I was getting this error after I recently added a new network to my docker-compose file.

I initially had these services:

services:
  frontend:
    depends_on:
      - backend
    ports:
      - 3005:3000
  
  backend:
    ports:
      - 8005:8000

I decided to add a new network which hosts other services I wanted my frontend service to have access to, so I did this:

networks:
  moar:
    name: moar-network
    attachable: true

services:
  frontend:
    networks:
      - moar
    depends_on:
      - backend
    ports:
      - 3005:3000
  
  backend:
    ports:
      - 8005:8000

Unfortunately, the above made it so that my frontend service was no longer visible on the default network, and only visible in the moar network. This meant that the frontend service could no longer proxy requests to backend, therefore I was getting errors like:

Error occured while trying to proxy to: localhost:3005/graphql/

The solution is to add the default network to the frontend service’s network list, like so:

networks:
  moar:
    name: moar-network
    attachable: true

services:
  frontend:
    networks:
      - moar
      - default # here
    depends_on:
      - backend
    ports:
      - 3005:3000
  
  backend:
    ports:
      - 8005:8000

Now we’re peachy!

---

One last thing, if you want to see which services are running within a given network, you can use the docker network inspect <network_name> command to do so. This is what helped me discover that the frontend service was not part of the default network anymore.

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