webdriver-update still cannot work offline, fails in case of DNS error

I saw in the changelog that “feat(start): start selenium without making web requests” #232 has been implemented, so I updated webdriver-manager to 12.0.6 in our build system.

We had some DNS problems in our network, and this has proven that unfortunately webdriver-manager still cannot work offline, even though I provide the exact versions of selenium and chrome driver (see below). These selenium and chrome driver versions have been previously installed by webdriver-manager.

webdriver-manager was started as:

webdriver-manager start --versions.standalone 3.3.1 --versions.chrome 2.29 --chrome_logs /path/to/chromedriver_7270.log --seleniumPort 7270

and now in case of a network failure I got the following error:

webdriver-manager: using global installed version 12.0.6
events.js:160
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

Error: getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com:443
    at Object.exports._errnoException (util.js:1022:11)
    at errnoException (dns.js:33:15)
    at GetAddrInfoReqWrap.onlookup [as oncomplete] (dns.js:76:26)

Are you aware of this? Is webdriver-manager supposed to work fully offline with #232? It would be very nice to fix this, please, so webdriver-manager based build systems would not need to depend on Internet access. (Reproduced under Linux (Centos 7), Node.js version is 6.9.5 if that matters.)

[kishorranga]

I am also facing the same issue while running Angular2 e2e tests

ng e2e webpack: Compiled successfully. [15:33:36] I/config_source - curl -oc:\test\elastic-alert\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\webdriver-manager\selenium\chrome-response.xml https://c hromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/ events.js:183 throw er; // Unhandled ‘error’ event ^

Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com:443 at errnoException (dns.js:50:10) at GetAddrInfoReqWrap.onlookup [as oncomplete] (dns.js:92:26)

[attila123]

One more fail, now with api.github.com:

webdriver-manager: using global installed version 12.0.6
events.js:160
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND api.github.com api.github.com:443
    at errnoException (dns.js:28:10)
    at GetAddrInfoReqWrap.onlookup [as oncomplete] (dns.js:76:26)