"no such host" / NXDOMAIN error. Terraform retries for more than an hour.

[joernheissler]

Hello!

Terraform took more than an hour to notice that a resource cannot be created.
In my opinion, this should have been an immediate error.

* aws_ses_domain_identity.sub: Error requesting SES domain identity verification:
    RequestError: send request failed
caused by: Post https://email.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/:
    dial tcp: lookup email.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com on 127.0.0.1:53:
    no such host

email.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com does not exist, my dns server on 127.0.0.1 responds with NXDOMAIN.

Terraform Version

Terraform v0.11.0
+ provider.aws v1.3.1

Affected Resource(s)

• aws_ses_domain_identity

I assume that other resources are affected too.

Terraform Configuration Files

provider "aws" {
    region = "eu-central-1"
}

resource "aws_ses_domain_identityaws_ses_domain_identity" "sub" {
    domain = "test.example.net"
}

Debug Output

https://gist.github.com/joernheissler/e256c0c7704d300ba4c2674575796293

Expected Behavior

Immediate error.

Actual Behavior

aws_ses_domain_identity.sub: Still creating... (1h18m40s elapsed)

And only then it failed.

Steps to Reproduce

Try above configuration.

Important Factoids

There is no SES service in eu-central-1. I neglected to select the correct region.

[arnisoph]

I was able to fix this by setting the correct region... (eu-west-1 instead of eu-central-1)

Thanks for the hint!

[arnisoph]

this issue duplicates #732

[joernheissler]

Thanks, I must have missed that one.

[elisiano]

@arnoldbechtoldt could you please provide more details of where you specified the region?

[arnisoph]

@elisiano either ~/.aws/credentials or in the provider definition

[ghost]

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