Impacket error for mssqlclient.py

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I am getting this error what do I need to do to fix this
Impacket

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Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/eggz/impacket/examples/mssqlclient.py”, line 84, in
ms_sql.connect()
File “/home/eggz/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/impacket/tds.py”, line 533, in connect
af, socktype, proto, canonname, sa = socket.getaddrinfo(self.server, self.port, 0, socket.SOCK_STREAM)[0]
File “/usr/lib/python3.9/socket.py”, line 953, in getaddrinfo
for res in _socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, family, type, proto, flags):
socket.gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known

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I’m experiencing the same issue

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what command did you use for that ?

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Same

└─$ python3 mssqlclient.py ARCHETYPE/sql_svc@{10.129.193.52} -windows-auth
Impacket v0.11.0 - Copyright 2023 Fortra

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/impacket/examples/mssqlclient.py", line 84, in <module>
    ms_sql.connect()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/impacket/tds.py", line 533, in connect
    af, socktype, proto, canonname, sa = socket.getaddrinfo(self.server, self.port, 0, socket.SOCK_STREAM)[0]
                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/socket.py", line 962, in getaddrinfo
    for res in _socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, family, type, proto, flags):
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
socket.gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known

I am using running this from this directory.

lib/python3/dist-packages/impacket/examples

I git cloned the forta/impacket repo then copied the repo’s examples to my local folder since kali installed impacket there, but didn’t provide the script that was called for.