gradle - UnknownHostException error, building java grpc example

Question

I am following this grpc tutorial and I haven't even been able to make it through the first step. The first step is to git clone the project and then run

cd examples
./gradlew installDist

I am hit with this stack trace

Downloading https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.13-bin.zip

Exception in thread "main" java.net.UnknownHostException: services.gradle.org
    at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:184)
    at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:392)
    at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:589)
    at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.connect(SSLSocketImpl.java:668)
    at sun.security.ssl.BaseSSLSocketImpl.connect(BaseSSLSocketImpl.java:173)
    at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(NetworkClient.java:180)
    at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:432)
    at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:527)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.<init>(HttpsClient.java:264)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.New(HttpsClient.java:367)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.java:191)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect0(HttpURLConnection.java:1105)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(HttpURLConnection.java:999)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.java:177)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream0(HttpURLConnection.java:1513)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1441)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getInputStream(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:254)
    at org.gradle.wrapper.Download.downloadInternal(Download.java:58)
    at org.gradle.wrapper.Download.download(Download.java:44)
    at org.gradle.wrapper.Install$1.call(Install.java:61)
    at org.gradle.wrapper.Install$1.call(Install.java:48)
    at org.gradle.wrapper.ExclusiveFileAccessManager.access(ExclusiveFileAccessManager.java:65)
    at org.gradle.wrapper.Install.createDist(Install.java:48)
    at org.gradle.wrapper.WrapperExecutor.execute(WrapperExecutor.java:128)
    at org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain.main(GradleWrapperMain.java:61)

I thought that was a proxy issue, so I took some inspiration from this post and opened up the file

gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

and added the lines

systemProp.http.proxyHost=<my proxy>
systemProp.http.proxyPort=<my port>

I also replaced distributionUrl line with this

distributionUrl=http://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.13-bin.zip 

That is, I switched https --> http.

After all of this, I am still getting the same stack trace.

Anybody have advice?

EDIT : I added a

gradle.properties

file in the home directory, and added the fields

systemProp.http.proxyHost
systemProd.http.proxyPort

and

systemProp.https.proxyHost
systemProp.https.proxyPort

but I still got the same error as before. HOWEVER, the build script appeared to stall on this line

Downloading https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.13-bin.zip

For about 10 seconds or so, before failing. So... progress?

Answer 1

I had the same problem and finally found this solution after 2 hours...

Go to the file gradlew.bat in your project and change DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS variable as below:

set DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS=-Dhttp.proxyHost=YOUR_HOST -Dhttp.proxyPort=PORT -Dhttp.proxyUser=USERNAME -Dhttp.proxyPassword=PASSWORD -Dhttps.proxyHost=YOUR_HOST -Dhttps.proxyPort=PORT -Dhttps.proxyUser=USERNAME -Dhttps.proxyPassword=PASSWORD

then run gradlew clean build.