Running 'code .' in terminal in wsl produces an error

Question

I recently installed wsl and running code . in the terminal I get this error:

Updating VS Code Server to version f80445acd5a3dadef24aa209168452a3d97cc326
Removing previous installation...
Installing VS Code Server for x64 (f80445acd5a3dadef24aa209168452a3d97cc326)
Downloading: 100%
Failed
--2022-03-01 20:19:21--  https://update.code.visualstudio.com/commit:f80445acd5a3dadef24aa209168452a3d97cc326/server-linux-x64/stable
Resolving update.code.visualstudio.com (update.code.visualstudio.com)... 40.64.128.224
Connecting to update.code.visualstudio.com (update.code.visualstudio.com)|40.64.128.224|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://az764295.vo.msecnd.net/stable/f80445acd5a3dadef24aa209168452a3d97cc326/vscode-server-linux-x64.tar.gz [following]
--2022-03-01 20:19:25--  https://az764295.vo.msecnd.net/stable/f80445acd5a3dadef24aa209168452a3d97cc326/vscode-server-linux-x64.tar.gz
Resolving az764295.vo.msecnd.net (az764295.vo.msecnd.net)... failed: Temporary failure in name resolution.
wget: unable to resolve host address ‘az764295.vo.msecnd.net’
ERROR: Failed to download https://update.code.visualstudio.com/commit:f80445acd5a3dadef24aa209168452a3d97cc326/server-linux-x64/stable to /home/burbanox/.vscode-server/bin/f80445acd5a3dadef24aa209168452a3d97cc326-1646176740.tar.gz

I need to know how I can solve it to be able to open visual studio code

Answer 1

1. Open VS Code from Windows
2. Open command palette Ctrl + Shift + p
3. Type WSL and select option WSL: connect to WSL using Distro
4. Select your distro, for example Ubuntu-22.04

Now if you try command code . from WSL it should work.

This seems to me a network issue in WSL. By doing the above steps, the vscode gets updated from the windows side instead from inside WSL which was failing previously.