| It may happen even without network issues, e.g. when there is an unsupported DNS Message type coming from DNS. We use an old library version, and not all DNS Message types are supported (discovered in JENKINS-50812) Record type enumeration in the lib: https://github.com/jenkinsci/jmdns/blob/64f48ab717e0c8022f60d7dcb7f148f47c7f1227/src/main/java/javax/jmdns/impl/constants/DNSRecordType.java List of all DNS record types: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DNS_record_types . Likely some types have been added in new DNS versions via RFCs. E.g. URI identifier has been added in 2015 by https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7553 , so no wonder it's not supported by the lib. There is https://github.com/jenkinsci/jmdns/pull/2 , which may resolve the issue by bumping to the new version |