Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND in nodejs for get call

Question

I am running a web server on node the code for which is given below

var restify = require(\'restify\');

var server = restify.createServer();

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Answer 1

I was running into the same problem and after some trial and error discovered that my hosts file customisation was causing the problem.

My localhost DNS was overwritten and because of that a simple ping was failing:

$ ping http://localhost
# ping: cannot resolve http://localhost: Unknown host

Once I resolved the configuration of /private/etc/hosts file, pinging localhost successfully worked, and was no longer getting the error that you were seeing:

# Fatal error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND