Regular short getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN outages

[RoundHouse1924]

This is an Uptime Kuma quirk that I solved by upping "Retries" on each affected monitor to at least 2. Just one of my 25 monitors needed retries upping to 5 for a fix.

Hope this helps!

[jdaviescoates]

@RoundHouse1924 Thanks, although surely that could just mean that when it tried once it was broken but by the time it retried it was working again? Although I guess the time between retries is tiny?

[girish]

I went and checked our instances' logs. I found sporadic ENOTFOUND but very spaced out (like months apart).

[mazarian]

I know this is an old thread, but I'm also having this issue and curious if anyone has found a solution other than upping retries. Or perhaps there's another service similar to Uptime Kuma that doesn't have these issues?

[girish]

I don't see this in our instance atleast - https://status.cloudron.io . Which TLD are you using?

[mazarian]

Hey thanks for getting back! My TLD is .LA.

[girish]

@mazarian as a way to debug this further, maybe you can add a www.cloudron.io or some other domain (io or com) , to your Uptime Kuma. This well help us narrow if this is a general DNS/network issue or specific to your TLD.

[mazarian]

That's a fantastic idea! I will add it. I ended up migrating it off Cloudron for the time being because I have come to depend on UK for work and all the notifications were bogging me down.

I will restart the old instance to test and will report back what I find out.

[jrl-abstract27]

I do have the same kind of shortages with uptime kuma. I did add Cloudron to see. Any idea of what is happening ?

I have a dedicated server with hetzner.

[girish]

@jrl-abstract27 this is to do with the local DNS server (unbound) not resolving . In Cloudron 8 (the next release), we are removing unbound altogether and it will use your network's resolver via systemd-resolved. Maybe this issues gets sorted out with that.

[jrl-abstract27]

thanks @girish

[factord]

@girish

@girish said in Regular short getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN outages:

@jrl-abstract27 this is to do with the local DNS server (unbound) not resolving . In Cloudron 8 (the next release), we are removing unbound altogether and it will use your network's resolver via systemd-resolved. Maybe this issues gets sorted out with that.

Hi, i just upgraded to Cloudron 8.0.3, rebooted server and i see Unbound still appears in the services pages, is that normal? does that mean uptime kuma still uses it?

[nebulon]

unbound is still used in Cloudron, but its usage is drastically reduced now. It is used for directly querying the nameservers to check if DNS records are already in-sync to avoid hitting NXDOMAIN for newly installed apps as well as for email DNS record lookup.

The rest now uses whatever the default setup, of the environment the server is running in, is.

[girish]

To conclude what @nebulon said, for Uptime Kuma this means that it uses the system DNS (and not unbound).

[factord]

@girish ouch, i still have the EAI_AGAIN error, i suppose i have to check with uptime kuma then. Any suggestion? maybe our datacenter dns is overloaded and we should use google dns or something like that?

[girish]

@factord right, so this means this is either a local DNS issue or uptime kuma issue. Quick idea is to just set up the server's /etc/resolv.conf with Google DNS maybe and check if it mitigates the issue.

[thoresson]

I've used Uptime Kuna without any problem since April. But for the last 24+ hours I suddenly have started to receive tons of these:

The affected hosts are on .se, and one .social. Some of them are hosted at the same box I run Cloudron on, some on others.

I see that it's not the same error message as in the OP, but similar enough to be related?

According to my logs, my Cloudron was updated to 8.0.4 on August 28, and 8.0.6 yesterday morning. I don't know for sure, but from the graphs it looks like the problem started as soon as that update had been installed. This is what the week graph looks like for or the monitored services with problems:

[joseph]

@thoresson usually, ENOTFOUND is a problem with the DNS. Is the DNS working on the server? You can try host www.cloudron.io from the host (via ssh) and also viw the Web Terminal of the Uptime Kuma app. Do they work?

[thoresson]

@joseph Yes, this is what I get using the web terminal.

But could it be that the DNS is going down intermittently?

[joseph]

@thoresson which version of Cloudron are you on? Can you upgrade to Cloudron 8.0.6 ? Starting 8.0.6, all app containers also use the system DNS. You can find out your DNS servers using resolvectl on the server.