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Hazem Ben Abdelhafidh
Hazem Ben Abdelhafidh

Reputation: 456

Getting getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND mongo when trying to connect to MongoDB

I'm trying to connect to a mongoDB database inside a docker container but I'm getting this error message : "getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND mongo" and I have no idea what caused it. I'm still new to docker and I can't seem to find a solution to this problem.

Here is my docker-compose file:

version: '3.9'
services:
  mongo:
    image: mongo:latest
    restart: always
    container_name: mongodb
    ports:
      - '27017:27017'
    volumes:
      - mongodb:/data/db
    environment:
       MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME: hazem 
       MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD: 123  
       MONGO_INITDB_DATABASE: DB 
volumes:
  mongodb: {}

and here is the function to connect to the DB :

export const connectDB = async () => {
  try {
    await mongoose.connect("mongodb://hazem:123@mongo:27017/DB");
    console.log("connected to DB");
  } catch (error: any) {
    console.log(error.message);
    // retry to connect after 5 seconds
    setTimeout(connectDB, 5000);
  }
};

Upvotes: 4

Views: 11825

Answers (2)

dvdblk
dvdblk

Reputation: 2935

All I had to do was check the 'Direct connection' checkbox and it connected right away.

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Upvotes: 18

Mihai
Mihai

Reputation: 10737

If your code runs on the host then the connection string should be:

mongodb://hazem:123@localhost:27017/DB

Your connection string is correct if it runs in a container, but then you need to make sure the container is on the same docker network as the database container.

Upvotes: 3

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