I have an dotnet 5 service that sends emails using the SmtpClient. This service is deployed as a linux docker image running in AWS EKS (Kubernetes).
Running locally on my machine, everything works fine, but when it's deployed to our K8s environment, every SmtpClient.SentAsync call sits for around 10 minutes, before it finally crashes with the following exception:
System.Net.Mail.SmtpException: Failure sending mail.
---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException (99): Cannot assign requested address
I've researched this error, and there is a lot of talk about using/not using localhost as a host name. In my case, I'm not using local host at all. I'm just trying to send outbound emails using SmtpClient, where the host is a 3rd party SMTP server.
I've tried running this as a linux docker container on my own dev machine, and it also works fine, so it seems to not like something about my EKS environment, yet I can't figure out what that is. Any ideas?
Update: FYI, the pod can access the internet just fine, using the HttpClient for example. I can also make http calls to it's API on port 80. So it's binding just fine in that regard. It just seems to be an issue when using the SmtpClient.
Stack Track:
System.Net.Mail.SmtpException: Failure sending mail.
---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException (99): Cannot assign requested address
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.BeginConnectEx(EndPoint remoteEP, Boolean flowContext, AsyncCallback callback, Object state)
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.UnsafeBeginConnect(EndPoint remoteEP, AsyncCallback callback, Object state, Boolean flowContext)
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.PostOneBeginConnect(MultipleAddressConnectAsyncResult context)
--- End of stack trace from previous location ---
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.DoMultipleAddressConnectCallback(Object result, MultipleAddressConnectAsyncResult context)
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.MultipleAddressConnectCallback(IAsyncResult result)
--- End of stack trace from previous location ---
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.EndConnect(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
at System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient.EndConnect(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
at System.Net.Mail.SmtpConnection.ConnectAndHandshakeAsyncResult.InitializeConnectionCallback(IAsyncResult result)
--- End of stack trace from previous location ---
at System.Net.Mail.SmtpConnection.ConnectAndHandshakeAsyncResult.End(IAsyncResult result)
at System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient.ConnectCallback(IAsyncResult result)
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