npm install error - getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN registry.npmjs.org:443

[akelle17]

Everytime I try to npm install a file I get the following error:
getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN registry.npmjs.org:443

I am using stefanscherer/node-windows:8.9.3 image but have had this issue with many other images as well.

Initial npm error:

npm logs:

[StefanScherer]

Hi @akelle17
Sounds like a general network problem inside Windows containers.
What's your environment? Windows 10 with Docker for Windows? Or a Windows Server 2016? Which versions, both OS and Docker or D4W?

Maybe running the script mentioned in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/troubleshooting gives you more details.

[StefanScherer]

Still having problems?

[binarymist]

This known issue for Docker and is discussed in detail here: https://development.robinwinslow.uk/2016/06/23/fix-docker-networking-dns/

Simple fix is to create the file /etc/docker/daemon.json

and insert:

{
    "dns": ["10.0.0.2", "8.8.8.8"]
}

where 10.0.0.2 is the first DNS server your machine requests records from, and 8.8.8.8 is the fallback DNS server, google in this case.

[suryaveera1995]

This issue again coming, can you guys please tell me how to solve this, especially if this is on the AWS

[Rama001]

I can't install browser sync still this error appears.

[alifgithub]

pm WARN registry Unexpected warning for https://registry.npmjs.org/: Miscellaneous Warning EAI_AGAIN: request to https://registry.npmjs.org/npm failed, reason: getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN registry.npmjs.org registry.npmjs.org:443
npm WARN registry Using stale data from https://registry.npmjs.org/ due to a request error during revalidation.
/usr/local/bin/npm -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js
/usr/local/bin/npx -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npx-cli.js

• npm@6.8.0
  updated 1 package in 46.932s

any have idea for solve it ? help me please

[StefanScherer]

In earlier Windows versions sometimes a sleep has helped before running commands that need internet connection. It seemed that the RUN instruction and setting up network runs in parallel.

See

dockerfiles-windows/getaddrinfo/Dockerfile

Line 5 in 967d4d8

RUN powershell -Command Sleep 2 ; wget -Uri https://github.com/StefanScherer/win-getaddrinfo/releases/download/1.0.8/getaddrinfo.exe -OutFile C:\Windows\system32\getaddrinfo.exe -UseBasicParsing

as an example

[luckyyang]

/etc/docker/daemon.json do not work for me. I have to reboot my ubuntu server to resolve my problem.

[raghureddycloud]

Restarting system resolved my issue.

[karanvij-ai]

Hi All,

I am running Docker Toolbox on windows 10 home.

Following were the steps(In Docker console -> Docker Quick Start and using bash from git installation):

1. npm install -g create-react-app
2. create-react-app frontend
3. cd frontend
4. npm run test
5. npm run build
   6.npm run start
6. code .

Created docker file(Dockerfile.dev):

FROM node:alpine

WORKDIR '/app'

COPY package.json .

RUN npm install

COPY . .

CMD ["npm", "run", "start"]

$ docker build -f Dockerfile.dev .

Output in console:

Sending build context to Docker daemon 146.5MB
Step 1/6 : FROM node:alpine
---> ef7d474eab14
Step 2/6 : WORKDIR '/app'
---> Using cache
---> c47b0eb2c3c1
Step 3/6 : COPY package.json .
---> Using cache
---> e5c66b740c8b
Step 4/6 : RUN npm install
---> Running in 962746bea142
npm ERR! code EAI_AGAIN
npm ERR! errno EAI_AGAIN
npm ERR! request to https://registry.npmjs.org/react failed, reason: getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN registry.npmjs.org

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /root/.npm/_logs/2019-09-21T01_00_35_350Z-debug.log
The command '/bin/sh -c npm install' returned a non-zero code: 1

Also, I couldn't find the complete log, not sure where is location.

Please help, Thanks

[nirajkvinit]

This known issue for Docker and is discussed in detail here: https://development.robinwinslow.uk/2016/06/23/fix-docker-networking-dns/

Simple fix is to create the file /etc/docker/daemon.json

and insert:

{
    "dns": ["10.0.0.2", "8.8.8.8"]
}

where 10.0.0.2 is the first DNS server your machine requests records from, and 8.8.8.8 is the fallback DNS server, google in this case.

Yes! It worked! Thank you!

[sid42]

@karanvij-ai Seeing the same issue, were you able to find a fix?

[Tokenyet]

I got a server network issue, and a client restart to let me ssh, and the problem happened. I'll show my steps to slove this issue, hope it help someone 😄

1. Follow the dns modification step above.
2. sudo service docker restart or sudo systemctl restart docker to restart docker.
3. sloved (maybe).

[gitaumoses4]

@Tokenyet it did solve my issue. Thanks alot.