The DNS server returned an error, perhaps the server is offline error

[wontsay]

Today most of my automations stopped working because of the following error shown on the screen

in order to make it run successfully i have to retry the automation a couple of times until the error itself disappears, the error wasn’t occuring before.
How can I fix this?

[jcuypers]

Hi, are you self-hosting or on the cloud?

[wontsay]

self-hosting on the vps. The error started appearing today.

[jcuypers]

not sure to be honest, maybe a problem within the domain hosting of your destination domain / hoster? usually you only query for a DNS lookup a single time and after that it is cached for a while or you have to forcefully empty it. how often does it happen? usually, for a specific domain there are several servers responsible just in case one fails. Is it always the same destination?

[wontsay]

happened 5-6 times today. The automation has to be rerun a few times to finish and I lose some of the data because of that (because it can’t get completed)

[jcuypers]

The only things I can think of: 1) if the problem is located in the DNS server of the hoster: try to change your primary DNS server to google (8.8.8.8) - if that’s an option. anything else: create a manual entry in the DNS

[wontsay]

so far everything seems to be working fine but i’ll wait until tomorrow to see if something happens

[Uneerup]

Hi

I also see this error. I am using the N8N Cloud.