npm install returns connection timeout while building docker image

Question

I am trying to make a docker image including newman. I tried to build the image using node:10-alpine, but I got connection refused error while npm install -g newman. This is my docker command:

RUN set http_proxy= && \
    set https_proxy= && \
    yarn config delete proxy && \
    npm config rm https-proxy && \
    npm config rm proxy && \
    npm config set registry http://registry.npmjs.org/ && \
    npm config set strict-ssl false && \
    npm cache clean --force && \
    npm cache verify && \
    npm install -g newman

The full error is:

npm ERR! code ECONNREFUSED
npm ERR! errno ECONNREFUSED
npm ERR! FetchError: request to https://registry.npmjs.org/newman failed, reason: connect ECONNREFUSED 192.168.14.109:1087
npm ERR!     at ClientRequest.req.on.err (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-fetch-npm/src/index.js:68:14)
npm ERR!     at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:198:13)
npm ERR!     at onerror (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/agent-base/index.js:101:9)
npm ERR!     at callbackError (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/agent-base/index.js:123:5)
npm ERR!     at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:68:7)
npm ERR!  { FetchError: request to https://registry.npmjs.org/newman failed, reason: connect ECONNREFUSED 192.168.14.109:1087
npm ERR!     at ClientRequest.req.on.err (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-fetch-npm/src/index.js:68:14)
npm ERR!     at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:198:13)
npm ERR!     at onerror (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/agent-base/index.js:101:9)
npm ERR!     at callbackError (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/agent-base/index.js:123:5)
npm ERR!     at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:68:7)
npm ERR!   message:
npm ERR!    'request to https://registry.npmjs.org/newman failed, reason: connect ECONNREFUSED 192.168.14.109:1087',
npm ERR!   type: 'system',
npm ERR!   errno: 'ECONNREFUSED',
npm ERR!   code: 'ECONNREFUSED',
npm ERR!   stack:
npm ERR!    'FetchError: request to https://registry.npmjs.org/newman failed, reason: connect ECONNREFUSED 192.168.14.109:1087\n    at ClientRequest.req.on.err (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-fetch-npm/src/index.js:68:14)\n    at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:198:13)\n    at onerror (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/agent-base/index.js:101:9)\n    at callbackError (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/agent-base/index.js:123:5)\n    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:68:7)' }
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! If you are behind a proxy, please make sure that the
npm ERR! 'proxy' config is set properly.  See: 'npm help config'

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2020-03-02T14_57_46_444Z-debug.log

Then I tried to make my image from alpine:3.8 which gives me repository error while apk update. This is my second version:

RUN apk update && apk add --no-cache nodejs npm
RUN npm install -g newman

Full error log is:

Step 5/7 : RUN apk update && apk add --no-cache nodejs npm
 ---> Running in 6149b2571389
fetch http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.8/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
ERROR: http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.8/main: operation timed out
WARNING: Ignoring APKINDEX.adfa7ceb.tar.gz: No such file or directory
fetch http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.8/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
ERROR: http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.8/community: operation timed out
WARNING: Ignoring APKINDEX.efaa1f73.tar.gz: No such file or directory
2 errors; 13 distinct packages available
The command '/bin/sh -c apk update && apk add --no-cache nodejs npm' returned a non-zero code: 2

I also tried to build the image with --network=hostoption; but got the same errors in both versions.

Additionally ping dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org works fine on my system.

Besides, restarted the docker service, sudo systemctl restart docker, and tried one more time. Got the same results again.

Answer 1

In my case works with this steps:

1. In the Host, I change Host Server /etc/sysctl.conf:

I added

net.ipv4.ip_forward=1

2. I use

   nslookup registry.npmjs.org

Give me the IP 104.16.25.38

3. Docker Build with IP

docker build . --add-host registry.npmjs.org:104.16.25.38 -t test