NPM Error The value "4294967295" is invalid for option "family" - node.js

Question

Problem
I can't seem to install and packages using npm. It seems to be a DNS query issue. Has anyone found a way to fix this?
Software
node --version v10.18.1
npm --version 6.13.4
OS
Virtualization: qemu
Operating System: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-55-generic
Architecture: x86-64
Logs
1 verbose cli [ '/usr/bin/node', '/usr/bin/npm', 'install', 'webpack' ]
2 info using npm#6.13.4
3 info using node#v10.18.1
4 verbose npm-session 854255086166d555
5 silly install loadCurrentTree
6 silly install readLocalPackageData
7 silly fetchPackageMetaData error for webpack#^4.17.0 The value "4294967295" is invalid for option "family"
8 timing stage:rollbackFailedOptional Completed in 49ms
9 timing stage:runTopLevelLifecycles Completed in 3593ms
10 verbose stack TypeError [ERR_INVALID_OPT_VALUE]: The value "4294967295" is invalid for option "family"
10 verbose stack at lookup (dns.js:112:11)
10 verbose stack at net.js:1004:5
10 verbose stack at defaultTriggerAsyncIdScope (internal/async_hooks.js:294:19)
10 verbose stack at lookupAndConnect (net.js:1003:3)
10 verbose stack at TLSSocket.Socket.connect (net.js:938:5)
10 verbose stack at Object.connect (_tls_wrap.js:1165:13)
10 verbose stack at HttpsAgent.createConnection (https.js:120:22)
10 verbose stack at HttpsAgent.createSocket (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/agentkeepalive/lib/_http_agent.js:265:26)
10 verbose stack at HttpsAgent.createSocket (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/agentkeepalive/lib/agent.js:77:11)
10 verbose stack at HttpsAgent.addRequest (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/agentkeepalive/lib/_http_agent.js:239:10)
10 verbose stack at new ClientRequest (_http_client.js:249:16)
10 verbose stack at request (https.js:289:10)
10 verbose stack at fetch.Promise (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-fetch-npm/src/index.js:54:17)
10 verbose stack at new Promise (<anonymous>)
10 verbose stack at fetch (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-fetch-npm/src/index.js:41:10)
10 verbose stack at retry (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/make-fetch-happen/index.js:332:14)
11 verbose cwd /var/www/magellan/app
12 verbose Linux 4.15.0-55-generic
13 verbose argv "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "webpack"
14 verbose node v10.18.1
15 verbose npm v6.13.4
16 error code ERR_INVALID_OPT_VALUE
17 error The value "4294967295" is invalid for option "family"
18 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

Answer 1

Maybe this is somehow related to this issue described in the balena forum:
the mentioned exception comes probably from the dns.js in node and may be a result from a "mysterious" variable intialization:
family = options.family >>> 0;
It looks like that an undefined value for family gets evaluated to "4294967295" instead of "0" while using QEMU.
If you have access to the code for the underlying call (at net.js:1004:5), maybe you can do a similiar workaround and add a fixed value for this family-parameter to the "lookup" function call.