2 months ago
I have an app using bullmq deployed to railway that connects to redis. when I am trying to connect using Redis private network the connection is timing out. I have checked the existing threads and they recommend adding family=0 but that did not work for me.
Then I tried to also check from the container command line and it got the same result:
root@45db4e4c02f3:/app# REDIS_URL_VAR="redis://default:XXXXPASSWORDXXXX@redis.railway.internal:6379?family=0"
root@45db4e4c02f3:/app# node -e "const Redis = require('ioredis'); const r = new Redis("$REDIS_URL_VAR"); r.ping().then(res => {console.log('PING:', res); process.exit(0)}).catch(e => {console.error('Error:', e.message); process.exit(1)})"
[ioredis] Unhandled error event: Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND redis.railway.internal
at GetAddrInfoReqWrap.onlookupall [as oncomplete] (node:dns:122:26)It is clear that DNS "redis.railway.internal" is not getting resolved. I am able to use the public URL without any issue but would not like to.
How to resolve this? If the DNS resolves the ping test should work.
2 Replies
2 months ago
Your Redis service and your app services (recoup-backend-worker, recoup-backend-api) are in different projects. Private networking is scoped to a single project and environment, so redis.railway.internal cannot resolve from a service in another project. Moving or recreating the Redis instance into the same project as your app will allow private network connectivity.
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2 months ago
Thanks that worked
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Status changed to Solved Railway • about 2 months ago