gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known

[roperi]

Sometimes when I try to run the bot script it halts throwing an error. It seems that the slack server isn't responding to slackbot. Wouldn't be good to retry when this kind of exception happens?

Here's the full traceback:

    bot.run()
  File "/home/user/.virtualenvs/slackbot/lib/python2.7/site-packages/slackbot/bot.py", line 34, in run
    self._client.rtm_connect()
  File "/home/user/.virtualenvs/slackbot/lib/python2.7/site-packages/slackbot/slackclient.py", line 42, in rtm_connect
    self.parse_slack_login_data(reply)
  File "/home/user/.virtualenvs/slackbot/lib/python2.7/site-packages/slackbot/slackclient.py", line 63, in parse_slack_login_data
    self.websocket = create_connection(self.login_data['url'])
  File "/home/user/.virtualenvs/slackbot/lib/python2.7/site-packages/websocket/_core.py", line 489, in create_connection
    websock.connect(url, **options)
  File "/home/user/.virtualenvs/slackbot/lib/python2.7/site-packages/websocket/_core.py", line 216, in connect
    options.pop('socket', None))
  File "/home/user/.virtualenvs/slackbot/lib/python2.7/site-packages/websocket/_http.py", line 60, in connect
    addrinfo_list, need_tunnel, auth = _get_addrinfo_list(hostname, port, is_secure, proxy)
  File "/home/user/.virtualenvs/slackbot/lib/python2.7/site-packages/websocket/_http.py", line 88, in _get_addrinfo_list
    addrinfo_list = socket.getaddrinfo(hostname, port, 0, 0, socket.SOL_TCP)
gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known

[lins05]

Name or service not known is a DNS error. It's almost 100% related to your specific environment.