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Haris Muhibic
Haris Muhibic

Reputation: 33

getaddrinfo failed with socket.gaierror[11001] (python) (mqtt)

I have created an android app that publishes a message over MQTT. I am in the process of creating a python program to receive the commands. However, when I run it I always encounter an error. 

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "mqttapptest.py", line 13, in <module>
client.connect(MQTTHOST)
File "E:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\paho\mqtt\client.py", line 686, in connect
return self.reconnect()
File "E:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\paho\mqtt\client.py", line 808, in reconnect
sock = socket.create_connection((self._host, self._port), source_address=(self._bind_address, 0))
File "E:\Anaconda\lib\socket.py", line 693, in create_connection
for res in getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, SOCK_STREAM):
File "E:\Anaconda\lib\socket.py", line 732, in getaddrinfo
for res in _socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, family, type, proto, flags):
socket.gaierror: [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed

My source code looks like this :

 #!/usr/bin/env python
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import paho.mqtt.client as mqtt

MQTTHOST = "free.mqtt.shiguredo.jp"
USERNAME = "<username>"
PASSWORD = "<password>"

client = mqtt.Client(protocol=mqtt.MQTTv311)
client.username_pw_set(USERNAME, PASSWORD)

client.connect(MQTTHOST)

TOPIC = "harismuha123@github/#"
client.subscribe(TOPIC)

client.loop_forever()

TOPIC = "harismuha123@github"
client.publish(TOPIC, "message from python")

import time
time.sleep(0.05)

What am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 9096

Answers (2)

Jonathan Eduardo Tito Ontaneda
Jonathan Eduardo Tito Ontaneda

Reputation: 21

Change your topic from "harismuha123@github/#" to "harismuha123@github/whatever" and delete all the comments because the sign "#" is an special character for the mqtt protocol.

Upvotes: 0

lpiner
lpiner

Reputation: 465

Looks like you can't resolve the hostname.

>>> socket.getaddrinfo('reddit.com', 22)
    [(<AddressFamily.AF_INET: 2>, <SocketKind.SOCK_STREAM: 1>, 6, '', ('151.101.65.140', 22)), (<AddressFamily.AF_INET: 2>, <SocketKind.SOCK_DGRAM: 2>, 17, '', ('151.101.65.140', 22)), (<AddressFamily.AF_INET: 2>, <SocketKind.SOCK_RAW: 3>, 0, '', ('151.101.65.140', 22)), (<AddressFamily.AF_INET: 2>, <SocketKind.SOCK_STREAM: 1>, 6, '', ('151.101.129.140', 22)), (<AddressFamily.AF_INET: 2>, <SocketKind.SOCK_DGRAM: 2>, 17, '', ('151.101.129.140', 22)), (<AddressFamily.AF_INET: 2>, <SocketKind.SOCK_RAW: 3>, 0, '', ('151.101.129.140', 22)), (<AddressFamily.AF_INET: 2>, <SocketKind.SOCK_STREAM: 1>, 6, '', ('151.101.193.140', 22)), (<AddressFamily.AF_INET: 2>, <SocketKind.SOCK_DGRAM: 2>, 17, '', ('151.101.193.140', 22)), (<AddressFamily.AF_INET: 2>, <SocketKind.SOCK_RAW: 3>, 0, '', ('151.101.193.140', 22)), (<AddressFamily.AF_INET: 2>, <SocketKind.SOCK_STREAM: 1>, 6, '', ('151.101.1.140', 22)), (<AddressFamily.AF_INET: 2>, <SocketKind.SOCK_DGRAM: 2>, 17, '', ('151.101.1.140', 22)), (<AddressFamily.AF_INET: 2>, <SocketKind.SOCK_RAW: 3>, 0, '', ('151.101.1.140', 22))]
>>> socket.getaddrinfo('free.mqtt.shiguredo.jp', 8080)
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/usr/lib/python3.5/socket.py", line 732, in getaddrinfo
        for res in _socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, family, type, proto, flags):
    socket.gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known
>>> socket.gethostbyname('free.mqtt.shiguredo.jp')
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
    socket.gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known
>>> socket.gethostbyname('reddit.com')
    '151.101.65.140'

If you have the ip address of the server you want to connect to you might try using that first.

Upvotes: 2

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