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NodeRed Pool closed and EHOSTUNREACH repetitive error
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Description
Which node are you reporting and issue on?
node-red-node-mysql: 2.0.0
What are the steps to reproduce?
No response
What happens?
Description
When connecting from Node-RED to remote MySQL servers that are intentionally powered off nightly, the node-red-node-mysql node starts emitting repetitive EHOSTUNREACH errors in the Debug pane. This is expected while the DB is down, but it’s excessively noisy.
More importantly, after the remote DB server comes back online and connections begin succeeding again, the node still intermittently emits pool closed errors in the Node-RED Debug pane—even though queries are succeeding. This creates false alarms and makes monitoring unreliable.
Proposed solutions in internet mention restarting the whole NodeRed container, but this is obviously not a solution.
Environment
Node-RED: v3.0.2
node-red-node-mysql: 2.0.0
What did you expect to happen?
Have fewer error messages, and them dissapearing after a proper connection
Example flow
[
{
"id": "1125078a23e3b0d0",
"type": "mysql",
"z": "c187ccce3b1d0ea3",
"g": "1ed6f19507dfa98b",
"mydb": "0fbd1cccf0ccdbf2",
"name": "",
"x": 630,
"y": 460,
"wires": [
[
"832e554eb8152e86"
]
]
},
{
"id": "0fbd1cccf0ccdbf2",
"type": "MySQLdatabase",
"name": "QS600 New",
"host": "172.16.10.252",
"port": "3306",
"db": "quicksun",
"tz": "",
"charset": "UTF8"
}
]
Environment
- Node-RED version: v3.0.2
- Node.js version: v16.16.0
- npm version: 8.11.0
- Platform/OS: Synology NAS & docker
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the failure with the provided example flow against a MySQL server that is powered off and then restored. Inspect the connection and pool handling in node-red-node-mysql 2.0.0. Done means EHOSTUNREACH reporting is not excessively repetitive and pool closed errors stop after connections recover while queries succeed.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, mysql
- Domain
- backend, databases
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100