Hacktoberfest 2026: the issues maintainers tagged for October, open and beginner-friendly. Browse Hacktoberfest issues

Encountered a ConnectionErrorr: Max retries exceeded

Open
#96 5 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
docker, ollama, python

Research direction

No source file, test, or entry point is named. Start by reproducing the stack and checking whether the llm service resolves and accepts connections on port 11434; done means the /api/generate/ request succeeds without the connection error.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

ConnectionError: HTTPConnectionPool(host='llm', port=11434): Max retries exceeded with url: /api/generate/ (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x7f8f44052160>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution'))

Dominant language
Python
Stars
5.4k
Forks
1.2k
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

Getting set up

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

More from docker/genai-stack

All issues in docker/genai-stack

Similar issues

More Python issues

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.