InfluxDB write failure node-influx library - node.js

Question

I am writing data to influxdb using the node-influx library.
https://github.com/node-influx/node-influx
It writes about 500,000 records and then I start seeing this error following which there are no more writes. It looks like a dns issue but I am running it inside a docker container on ubuntu 18.04 host.
Error: getaddrinfo EAGAIN influxdb influxdb:8086 |at GetAddrInfoReqWrap.onlookup [as oncomplete] (dns.js:56:26)
I have the logging level set to debug but I am not seeing any other errors. Any idea what might be causing this?
Update
tried with a different influx version
increased ulimit of host
used ip address of docker-container instead of service name, no error is thrown, writes stop after sometime silently
tried to call the write API with curl
curl -i -XPOST 'http://localhost:8086/write?db=mydb' --data-binary 'snmp,hostipv4=172.16.102.82,oidname=cpu_idle,site=gotham value=1000 1574751020815819489'
This works and a record is inserted in the DB.
Update2
It seems to be a dns issue on the docker network. I am not able to ping the influxdb container from the worker container. The writes are not reaching influx.
Update3
As a workaround for now, I am forcing a process.exit(1) on catching the error on my worker and using docker-compose restart: on-failure to restart the service. This resumes the writes.
retention policy is set for 2 days on the DB
influxdb.conf
reporting-disabled = true
[meta]
dir = "/var/lib/influxdb/meta"
retention-autocreate = false
logging-enabled = true
[logging]
format = "auto"
level = "debug"
[data]
engine = "tsm1"
dir = "/var/lib/influxdb/data"
wal-dir = "/var/lib/influxdb/wal"
wal-fsync-delay = "200ms"
index-version = "inmem"
wal-logging-enabled = true
query-log-enabled = true
cache-max-memory-size = "2g"
cache-snapshot-memory-size = "256m"
cache-snapshot-write-cold-duration = "20m"
compact-full-write-cold-duration = "24h"
max-concurrent-compactions = 0
compact-throughput = "48m"
max-points-per-block = 0
max-series-per-database = 1000000
trace-logging-enabled = false
[coordinator]
write-timeout = "10s"
max-concurrent-queries = 0
query-timeout = "0s"
log-queries-after = "0s"
max-select-point = 0
max-select-series = 0
max-select-buckets = 0
[retention]
enabled = true
check-interval = "30m0s"
[shard-precreation]
enabled = true
check-interval = "10m0s"
advance-period = "30m0s"
[monitor]
store-enabled = true
store-database = "_internal"
store-interval = "10s"
[http]
enabled = true
bind-address = ":8086"
auth-enabled = false
log-enabled = true
max-concurrent-write-limit = 0
max-enqueued-write-limit = 0
enqueued-write-timeout = 0
[continuous_queries]
enabled = false
log-enabled = true
run-interval = "10s"