I have been running Dockers for SB and SAB for a while and suddenly having a problem.

 

Whenever i DL a TV episode, and it tries to run the autoprocess script, I get a timeout error.

 

SAB has a clickable hyperlink in the message, and when I click it is shows the URL it is trying to use to deliver the file, along with the error message (see screenshot below).

 

If I cut and paste the entire URL into a browser, the file processes and I get the normal response.

 

Also, manual processing from SB works fine.

 

It almost seems that the SAB docker cannot talk to the SB docker.

 

(I did a full reboot and it didn't help).

 

I did change the SB download directory by accident, but changed it back. I think if this were still an issue than using the URL would have failed. I also had to remap my TV volume, so deleted my old SB container and created a new one. Not sure if either one of those could have caused an issue.

 

Anyone have any ideas on how to diagnose / resolve this?

Turns out that the issue is my Dockers cannot resolve the ip address of the server from the hostname. When I hardcoded the ip it worked. Any idea why this happened all off a sudden?

Turns out that the issue is my Dockers cannot resolve the ip address of the server from the hostname. When I hardcoded the ip it worked. Any idea why this happened all off a sudden?

 

If you set your network to bridge, localhost will point to some IP address in the 172.17.0.0/16 subnet. So you have to bind all apps to 0.0.0.0 and use the external IP address.

Thanks for the tip. But this is working for me. My server has a fixed IP address anyway. Is there something I have to do in my router or server to cause this name/IP address to be propagated in my network.

I've always had this issue.  Names are really unpredicable on my network. 

Maybe setup a DNS server that all your clients use that has the proper name/ip address?