npm ERR! network getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND

Question

I am getting npm ERR! network getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND error while trying to install any package using NPM. I know there are numerous threads on the same issue but

Answer 1

I also faced this error but I was not working behind a proxy server at the moment so using npm config set proxy=http://address:8080 couldn't help and ~/.npmrc didn't contain any proxy setting either. The solution in my case was just to restart my computer.