"getaddrinfo: Temporary failure in name resolution" in RoR application

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Kartik Rao picture Kartik Rao · Jun 14, 2010 · Viewed 19.7k times · Source

I'm trying to retrieve emails from gmail using pop3 to my rails applicaiton. I get the error - "getaddrinfo: Temporary failure in name resolution" when i try to retrieve the email.

the weird thing is, it works when i try it at home but not at my university. i'm guessing it has something to do with the internet connection.

please help!

Answer

Issa Shabo picture Issa Shabo · Nov 27, 2015

I had the same problem just started getting this error out of the blue in a RoR application that connects to an API using a RestClient running on a local virtual machine using Vagrant that I have as a development environment.

The only thing that fixed the issue was simply restarting my virtual machine. Just done a vagrant down & up command, then rackup and back in the game.

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