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Error when trying to reconnect to a dead server

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Mar 14, 20260 views

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Hi, today our Redis server was down (connect timeout) and this was the chance to see how reconnection logic was working in ioredis. But I noticed some strange error: [code block] Looks like calling self.connect() doesn't return a promise, but Redis instance, which is strange. Does anyone know what's wrong here?

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Error: Object #<Redis> has no method 'catch'

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Solution: Error when trying to reconnect to a dead server

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That's really strange. Are you able to reproduce it?

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That's really strange. Are you able to reproduce it?
That's really strange. Are you able to reproduce it?

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Resolved in redis/ioredis GitHub issue #141. Community reactions: 0 upvotes.

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Last verified Mar 14, 2026

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Alex Chen

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