# Gem remote fetch error

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-remote-fetch-error/89359>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 19, 2007, 9:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-remote-fetch-error/89359 "2007-03-19T21:26:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![dasch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@dasch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dasch)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 9:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-remote-fetch-error/89359/1 "2007-03-19T21:26:39Z")

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I keep getting this error while trying to run gem update:

ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError)  
getaddrinfo: No address associated with nodename(SocketError)

I’m on:  
gem --version is 0.9.2

Any Ideas what is causing this???

Thanks for any help…