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How do you get rid of "Error: dns service error: unknown"

See original GitHub issue

I had started working with HAP-NodeJS, and after finally getting node to run I was met with this ugly error:

/home/user/HAP-NodeJS/node_modules/mdns/lib/advertisement.js:56
  dns_sd.DNSServiceRegister(self.serviceRef, flags, ifaceIdx, name,
         ^

Error: dns service error: unknown
    at new Advertisement (/home/user/HAP-NodeJS/node_modules/mdns/lib/advertisement.js:56:10)
    at Object.create [as createAdvertisement] (/home/user/HAP-NodeJS/node_modules/mdns/lib/advertisement.js:64:10)
    at Advertiser.startAdvertising (/home/user/HAP-NodeJS/lib/Advertiser.js:43:30)
    at Accessory._onListening (/home/user/HAP-NodeJS/lib/Accessory.js:539:20)
    at emitOne (events.js:96:13)
    at HAPServer.emit (events.js:188:7)
    at HAPServer._onListening (/home/user/HAP-NodeJS/lib/HAPServer.js:190:8)
    at emitOne (events.js:96:13)
    at EventedHTTPServer.emit (events.js:188:7)
    at EventedHTTPServer.<anonymous> (/home/user/HAP-NodeJS/lib/util/eventedhttp.js:65:10)

The thing is, even after I reinstalled HAP-NodeJS and reinstalled all of its dependencies, it still gave me that error, so now what do I do?

I’m using the windows subsystem for linux (look it up) on windows 10 x64, but I don’t think it affects anything as it is apparent from other open issues that other people have had this problem as well (I’m just putting it on top).