Chrome network error · -804 · DNS

ERR_DNS_CACHE_MISS

The entry was not found in cache or other local sources, for lookups where only local sources were queried. TODO(ericorth): Consider renaming to DNS_LOCAL_MISS or something like that as the cache is not necessarily queried either.

Chromium's description

The entry was not found in cache or other local sources, for lookups where only local sources were queried. TODO(ericorth): Consider renaming to DNS_LOCAL_MISS or something like that as the cache is not necessarily queried either.

Chrome shows it as net::ERR_DNS_CACHE_MISS, error -804. puppeteer and Playwright report the same name when a page fails to load in Chromium.

ERR_DNS_CACHE_MISS in the screenshot API

When the page itself fails to load with ERR_DNS_CACHE_MISS, the API answers 502 with the message The target website could not be loaded (ERR_DNS_CACHE_MISS). (target_unreachable). Not billed.

Only the page's own load can fail a render. An image, script or frame of the page that fails with a network error does not: the page is captured as the browser shows it without that resource.

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