# Hardhat TS/JS - network does not support ENS 

By [N00b21337](https://paragraph.com/@n00b21337) · 2024-03-25

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I was getting this error on a custom cluster with the geth node

    Error: network does not support ENS (operation="getResolver", network="unknown", code=UNSUPPORTED_OPERATION, version=providers/5.7.2)
    

Although the code worked locally somehow ethers js was looking for an ENS remotely.  
You must convert the address passed from wherever you have it.  
Official docs [ethers.io](http://ethers.io) getAddress. conversion - **ethers.utils.getAddress( address )** converts the string address to the address required for the smart contract to understand and then compile.

The first code I had was and this worked fine on local hardhat network

    await execute('TestToken', { from: deployer }, 'transfer', account, amount);
    

but only when I converted to this did things start to work remotely also without errors.

    await execute('TestToken', { from: deployer }, 'transfer', ethers.utils.getAddress(account), amount);

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*Originally published on [N00b21337](https://paragraph.com/@n00b21337/hardhat-ts-js-network-does-not-support-ens)*