can you provide a project ID, please?

9ce62e3c-968b-4ef5-ad89-6489f6db480e

Connecting to Postgres for example returns Host not found

that unfortunately, is a common problem due to the private network initialization delay, please add a 3 second sleep before your app starts

This is when it's running, not during start up. Can use the roundhouse.proxy.rlwy.net proxy to get it to consistency work. If I use that, you charge on egress.

It's not just that though, calling services using the public address that run on railway from inside railway are failing. We have been running this for a few months now, no issues. As I say, this only started happening at 6:50pm (UK Time).

Just tested again, api /heathz request to that service in my project. Works externally but can not call the public address from the service it's self.

We're looking into this as well. Curious, are these errors occurring when attempting to connect to the public database URL? -> Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND postgres

Also, it looks like the service restarted a couple of hours ago, just wondering was that a manual restart?

Now the same request worked…

Yeah @melissa manual restart to see if it was the service… Thanks for looking into this! Maybe it's just me affected?

Ah! I think we found the problem. Looks like you need to add the workaround for alpine images. Set this variable in your service: ENABLE_ALPINE_PRIVATE_NETWORKING=true

Docs ref: https://docs.railway.app/guides/private-networking#workaround-for-alpine-based-images

I can update that template so it comes default, too. Let me know if this helps?

@brody and @melissa you guys are awesome! That fix seems to have addressed the issue.

What would be amazing is if you can identify for other railway users if they are using ALPINE images and suggest to add that env var. Not sure if you do that now or not - maybe I missed it.

Can't thank you enough for the super fast response.

the alpine workaround variable, nor the 3 second sleep will be needed for much longer, they are actively working a permanent fix.

Yes!! We've talked about the notion of "suggestions" like what you're describing. Would love to see this kind of thing in the future, too.

Thanks again for raising this.

It looks like I have the same issue. My app could not connect to DB using the private networking but everything is good with the public networking. My project id is 3e60ecef-0377-406d-8995-dcdadd820852

please open a new thread