error : socket.gethostbyname(http_host)] : gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known

[Carlos]

Hi,

Every now and then, I see the following error in my server logs:

 

 ERROR:web2py:Traceback (most recent call last):
     File "/home/www-data/web2py/gluon/main.py", line 401, in wsgibase
       socket.gethostbyname(http_host)]
   gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known

So far today I'm getting 10+ of these errors (although not from any of my requests, but other users').

How can this error be fixed?.

I'm using latest web2py, ubuntu 10.04, postgresql, nginx, uwsgi-python.

Thanks,

   Carlos

[Massimo Di Pierro]

Never heard of this before. Fixed in trunk. Thanks for reporting it.

[Rufus]

I installed web2py on a remote ubuntu server 14.04 with Webmin package from APT function and the same error is happening for me.
I'll print the contents of http_host to check the value.

 Never mind, I just saw the APT function installed web2py 1.99.7 (2012-03-04).   I imagine a couple things have changed since then.

reinstalling web2py