can't fetch external urls from node (timeout error)

[greg]

Hi,

Yep, I’ve had that before when running Node on Alpine. Check out this thread:

Cannot request external services

Hello! Sorry if this is covered somewhere, if that’s the case I haven’t been able to find it. I’ve been struggling to connect to external services from my docker app (node). More specifically I’m trying to connect to a SMTP server at mailserver.loopia.se but I’m getting the error getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND ‘mailcluster.loopia.se’ I’ve accessed the container through flyctl ssh console and verified that the container in fact can access this address. Output from nslookup and ping below: Server: …

Essentially the “fix” is not using Alpine as the base image. That resolved the issue for both me and this other guy anyway .