pkg/steps: detect DNS resolution failures as infra errors

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Summary

Extend hintsAtInfraReason() to recognize two additional DNS resolution error patterns as infrastructure failures, preventing ci-operator from caching builds that failed due to transient DNS issues.

Details

When a build pod hits a transient DNS resolution failure (e.g., during Gradle dependency resolution or gcloud auth), ci-operator currently does not recognize the error as infrastructure-related. This causes the failed build to be cached and reused for all subsequent retries, turning a momentary DNS blip into a persistent failure.

The existing pattern "Could not resolve host: " only matches curl-style errors. This PR adds the two most common glibc DNS failure strings on Linux:

• "Name or service not known" — EAI_NONAME from getaddrinfo(), returned when DNS cannot resolve the hostname at all
• "Temporary failure in name resolution" — EAI_AGAIN from getaddrinfo(), returned on transient DNS server failures

Together with the existing patterns, these cover the primary DNS failure modes that can occur on build farm nodes during transient infrastructure issues (e.g., node-churn scenarios where node-resolver daemonset is not yet ready).

Motivation

On August 5, 2026, a ~4-minute DNS resolution hiccup on build13 caused simultaneous failures across multiple stackrox nightly jobs (AKS, GKE, OCP, ROSA-HCP). The error strings were:

• repo.maven.apache.org: Name or service not known (Gradle build)
• Failed to resolve 'oauth2.googleapis.com' ([Errno -2] Name or service not known) (gcloud auth)

Neither matched the existing hintsAtInfraReason() patterns, so ci-operator cached the failed builds and all retries replayed the same failure. This generated 5 Jira tickets that all traced back to the same transient DNS event.

With this change, ci-operator would have evicted the cached builds and retried on a healthy node.

Ref: DPTP-5138, DPTP-5124

Testing

Added TestHintsAtInfraReason with 14 test cases covering all existing patterns plus the two new DNS patterns, including realistic log snippet contexts. All pkg/steps/... tests pass.

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@jmguzik requested in Slack thread

Updates ci-operator to classify common Linux glibc DNS resolution errors as infrastructure failures. This prevents failed builds caused by transient DNS issues from being cached and allows retries on healthy nodes.

The change adds support for Name or service not known and Temporary failure in name resolution while retaining existing network error detection. Tests cover 14 realistic error and non-error log cases.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The infrastructure-error classifier recognizes two additional DNS failure messages. Table-driven tests cover DNS, network, TLS, registry, mirror, cache, and negative cases.

Changes

Infrastructure Error Detection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Classifier updates and test coverage pkg/steps/source.go, pkg/steps/source_test.go	hintsAtInfraReason now recognizes “Name or service not known” and “Temporary failure in name resolution” while retaining “no route to host”. Table-driven tests cover the expanded detection behavior and existing patterns.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to ac7e9

The PR adds DNS failure detection, but one test does not isolate the new temporary-resolution-error pattern and could miss a regression in that behavior. The change is otherwise mergeable with explicit follow-up to strengthen the test.

Suggested reviewers: danilo-gemoli, deepsm007

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 17

✅ Passed checks (17 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: detecting DNS resolution failures as infrastructure errors.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Go Error Handling	✅ Passed	The PR adds only string checks and table-driven assertions; it introduces no ignored errors, new panic, unchecked pointer dereference, or error-returning path.
Test Coverage For New Features	✅ Passed	The PR adds a table-driven TestHintsAtInfraReason covering both new DNS patterns; added cases for Name or service not known fail under the parent implementation.
Stable And Deterministic Test Names	✅ Passed	The changed test uses static t.Run names such as “empty log snippet” and “DNS resolution failure”; no generated values, timestamps, node names, namespaces, IPs, or UUIDs appear.
Test Structure And Quality	✅ Passed	The added standard-library table test uses one assertion per subtest, creates no resources, performs no waits, and reports inputs and expected values on failure.
Microshift Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	The PR adds a standard Go unit test (TestHintsAtInfraReason), not a new Ginkgo e2e test, and it references no MicroShift-unavailable API or resource.
Single Node Openshift (Sno) Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	The change adds only a standard Go testing.Test table test for string matching; it adds no Ginkgo e2e test or multi-node/SNO cluster assumption.
Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility	✅ Passed	The diff only changes DNS log matching in pkg/steps/source.go and adds unit tests; it adds no manifests, controllers, replicas, affinity, topology spread, node selectors, or PDBs.
Ote Binary Stdout Contract	✅ Passed	The PR only adds string checks and a table-driven unit test; no changed process-level stdout writes, logging setup, suite hooks, or OTE entry-point code are present.
Ipv6 And Disconnected Network Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	The PR adds a standard Go table-driven TestHintsAtInfraReason, not a new Ginkgo e2e test; it performs no networking or external connectivity.
No-Weak-Crypto	✅ Passed	The diff adds only DNS error-string checks and table tests; it introduces no MD5, SHA1, DES, RC4, Blowfish, ECB, custom crypto, or secret comparisons.
Container-Privileges	✅ Passed	The PR changes only Go source and tests for DNS log matching. The diff adds no Kubernetes manifests or privileged, hostPID, hostNetwork, hostIPC, SYS_ADMIN, or escalation settings.
No-Sensitive-Data-In-Logs	✅ Passed	The diff adds only DNS match strings and tests; it adds no production logging or sensitive values. Test snippets use public/example hostnames only.

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Inline comments:
In `@pkg/steps/source_test.go`:
- Around line 977-980: Update the “DNS resolution failure - temporary failure”
test case to use a realistic curl error snippet containing “Temporary failure in
name resolution” without “Could not resolve host:”, so the assertion
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