DNS Resolution Error with Claude Code

[Sukhraj-Singh-2006]

Describe the bug:
When using the analytics-mcp server with Claude Code, all API calls fail with a DNS resolution error: Failed to resolve analyticsadmin.googleapis.com. This occurs regardless of network connectivity (DNS resolves fine in the shell).

Steps to Reproduce:

Add analytics-mcp to Claude Code via claude mcp add
Start a Claude Code session
Ask Claude to call any analytics-mcp tool (e.g. get_account_summaries)
Observe DNS resolution failure
Expected behavior:
Successfully retrieve Google Analytics account data

Root cause:
gRPC's c-ares DNS resolver (used by this package) fails to resolve Google API endpoints when spawned as a subprocess by Claude Code on macOS. This is a known gRPC/macOS compatibility issue.

Fix:
Add GRPC_DNS_RESOLVER=native to the MCP server environment config to force gRPC to use the system's native DNS resolver.

For Claude Code, add it to your ~/.claude.json MCP config:

"env": {
"GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS": "PATH_TO_CREDENTIALS",
"GOOGLE_PROJECT_ID": "YOUR_PROJECT_ID",
"GRPC_DNS_RESOLVER": "native"
}
Or via CLI:

claude mcp add analytics-mcp
--scope user
-e "GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=PATH_TO_CREDENTIALS"
-e "GOOGLE_PROJECT_ID=YOUR_PROJECT_ID"
-e "GRPC_DNS_RESOLVER=native"
-- pipx run analytics-mcp
Environment:

macOS (Apple Silicon)
Python 3.12
Claude Code v2.1.175