Vinyl-FTP encountering `getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND` error. FileZilla works fine. Anyone know a fix?

Question

I am trying to use Gulp to FTP files from my local to a remote shared server site, however, I get the error:

Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND ftps.mysite.com ftps.mysite.com:21 at errnoException (dns.js:50:10) at GetAddrInfoReqWrap.onlookup [as oncomplete] (dns.js:92:26)

Googling for solutions I see that this is a common issue with using the \ character in the username, but my username is does not have that.

My code on my gulpfile.js is:

gulp.task('ftp-deploy', function() {

    var conn = ftp.create({
      host:     'ftps.mysite.com',
      port:     21,
      user:     '[email protected]',
      password: 'mypassword123',
      parallel: 10,
      log:      gutil.log,
    });

    var localFilesGlob = ['css-dist/**']; 

    return gulp.src(localFilesGlob, { base: './css-dist/', buffer: false })
      .pipe( conn.newer( '/css' ) )
      .pipe( conn.dest( '/css' ) )
    ;

});

I tried replacing @ with %40 but that made no difference.

Would anyone know how I could fix this? Is there perhaps another way I should be writing @ to work as a string in JS?

Answer 1

This is not a proper answer as I don't understand why this works, but it started working after I deleted

port:     21,