# Ansible-galaxy collection install random failure

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-galaxy-collection-install-random-failure/44809>\
**Category:** Get Help\
**Tags:** collections, galaxy-ng\
**Created:** [November 7, 2025, 2:42pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-galaxy-collection-install-random-failure/44809 "2025-11-07T14:42:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![romgo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/romgo/32/5202_2.png) [@romgo](https://forum.ansible.com/u/romgo)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 2:42pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-galaxy-collection-install-random-failure/44809/1 "2025-11-07T14:42:38Z")

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Dear community,

I use a gitlab-ci to execute ansible-playbook command, but before this I install all the necessary such as collection. I got random failures as follow. Not sure where it comes from, looking for ideas arround thanks !

```auto
$ ansible-galaxy collection install scaleway.scaleway ansible.posix community.docker

ERROR! Failed to download collection tar from 'default' due to the following unforeseen error: <urlopen error [Errno 101] Network is unreachable>. <urlopen error [Errno 101] Network is unreachable>

Starting galaxy collection install process

Process install dependency map

Starting collection install process

Downloading https://galaxy.ansible.com/api/v3/plugin/ansible/content/published/collections/artifacts/scaleway-scaleway-2.7.0.tar.gz to /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-3429mb2qz8rz/tmpygm5ddju/scaleway-scaleway-2.7.0-4bvni0tt

Cleaning up project directory and file based variables00:00

ERROR: Job failed: exit code 1

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**Author:** ![romgo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/romgo/32/5202_2.png) [@romgo](https://forum.ansible.com/u/romgo)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-galaxy-collection-install-random-failure/44809/2 "2025-11-07T16:08:31Z")

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seems related to internal bind server failing some dns resolution because IPV6.  
not related to ansible sorry 🙂

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**Author:** ![webknjaz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/webknjaz/32/5183_2.png) [@webknjaz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/webknjaz)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 4:10pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-galaxy-collection-install-random-failure/44809/3 "2025-11-07T16:10:46Z")

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@romgo if you can come up with a simple reproducer, please report it on the bug tracker. Perhaps, we could improve the error message or something around that.