fly won't allow connections to an app called "lp"?

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I’m running into a strange issue where I can’t connect to my app, and it seems to just be a matter of an evil name. When I deploy my docker app with the app name of lp, I can’t connect to it:

$ curl https://lp.fly.dev
curl: (35) OpenSSL SSL_connect: SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL in connection to lp.fly.dev:443

App
  Name     = lp          
  Owner    = personal    
  Version  = 0           
  Status   = running     
  Hostname = lp.fly.dev  

Deployment Status
  ID          = 608bbab5-cb15-e348-c90a-48bfe71fd5a6         
  Version     = v0                                           
  Status      = successful                                   
  Description = Deployment completed successfully            
  Instances   = 1 desired, 1 placed, 1 healthy, 0 unhealthy  

Instances
ID       VERSION REGION DESIRED STATUS  HEALTH CHECKS      RESTARTS CREATED 
4a92ff23 0       ewr    run     running 1 total, 1 passing 0        41s ago

If I use the exact same deploy script to push the same image with a different name, everything works as expected.

I’ve tried destroying the lp app and redeploying it, but it always fails as long as I use that name. But another name like lp7 works fine. I thought maybe it was two-letter names, but I successfully pushed an app called zx and that worked fine.

I’m leaving my lp instance up in case Fly folks want to investigate, but it’s just a throwaway instance, so feel free to kill it or send whatever requests to it that you want.

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Destroying it and recreating might be the problem. Each app gets its own IP, so DNS might be cached for you locally. Does this work for you?

curl https://lp.fly.dev --resolve lp.fly.dev:443:213.188.198.83
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Ah, that explains it. I’m able to connect that way. Sorry for the noise!

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No worries, we pretty much love all posts in this forum and you have a great avatar.

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