Doesn't timeout properly when server is unreachable

[celesteking]

 var r = require('redis').createClient(null, '1.2.3.4', {connect_timeout: 1000}); r.on('ready', function(){ console.log('ready!'); }).on('error', function(err){ console.log('error: ' + err)});

It doesn't timeout after 1 second. It does timeout after unknown amount of time with:

error: Error: Redis connection to 1.2.3.4:6379 failed - connect ETIMEDOUT

I think it should follow the docs and error out after specified timeout.

[areichman]

I'm having the same issue. I tried setting various combinations of retry_max_delay, connect_timeout, and max_attempts but I still see a fairly lengthy timeout delay.

[micmia]

Getting the same issue here... I tried connect_timeout, retry_max_delay and max_attempts, but it didn't work. Does anyone have a solution?

[bowsersenior]

Ran into the same issue!

[michelsalib]

I also got the same issue, my config is the following:

var client = redis.createClient(conf.port, conf.host, {
    connect_timeout: 100,        // abandon connection after 100ms
    retry_max_delay: 100,        // no impact, will not wait more than 100ms between reconnections attemps
    max_attempts: 1,             // only 1 connection attempt
    enable_offline_queue: false, // no offline queue, must wait for online mode
    no_ready_check: true         // we don't check for redis ready state, let's query the redis directly
});

But instead of failing after 100ms, it fails after a full second. Anyone found a fix for that?

[srlowe]

Similar issues here.

[raviv]

+1

[chrisbaldauf]

+1

[srlowe]

Any news on this?

[chrisbaldauf]

I wound up switching to ioredis, which appears to handle the connection timeouts properly and aside from the client creation, be a drop in replacement for my use case.

[srlowe]

That looks interesting - I'll take a closer look, thanks.

[BenHall]

To reproduce I paused a Redis Docker container but still seeing long timeouts