[Bug] Error creating index in Semantic Search notebook

[Jesse Seldess]

Is this a new bug?

• I believe this is a new bug
• I have searched the existing issues, and I could not find an existing issue for this bug

Current Behavior

In the Semantic Search notebook, when I try to create the index (code below), I always get an error (see log output) and am not able to proceed with the notebook. In the "Creating an index" step of the semantic search notebook, running:

import time

# only create index if it doesn't exist
if index_name not in pinecone.list_indexes():
    pinecone.create_index(
        name=index_name,
        dimension=len(dataset.documents.iloc[0]['values']),
        metric='cosine'
    )
    # wait a moment for the index to be fully initialized
    time.sleep(1)

# now connect to the index
index = pinecone.GRPCIndex(index_name)

Expected Behavior

I expect the index to be created successfully, so I can proceed with the notebook.

Steps To Reproduce

1. Go to https://colab.research.google.com/github/pinecone-io/examples/blob/master/docs/semantic-search.ipynb.
2. Run through the steps until you get to the create an index code.
3. Run that and you should get the error mentioned above.

Relevant log output

WARNING:urllib3.connectionpool:Retrying (Retry(total=2, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7c49135055a0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -2] Name or service not known')': /databases
WARNING:urllib3.connectionpool:Retrying (Retry(total=1, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7c4913504070>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -2] Name or service not known')': /databases
WARNING:urllib3.connectionpool:Retrying (Retry(total=0, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7c49123b0430>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -2] Name or service not known')': /databases
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
gaierror                                  Traceback (most recent call last)
[/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/urllib3/connection.py](https://localhost:8080/#) in _new_conn(self)
    173         try:
--> 174             conn = connection.create_connection(
    175                 (self._dns_host, self.port), self.timeout, **extra_kw

24 frames
gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

NewConnectionError                        Traceback (most recent call last)
NewConnectionError: <urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7c49123b05e0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -2] Name or service not known

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

MaxRetryError                             Traceback (most recent call last)
[/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/urllib3/util/retry.py](https://localhost:8080/#) in increment(self, method, url, response, error, _pool, _stacktrace)
    590 
    591         if new_retry.is_exhausted():
--> 592             raise MaxRetryError(_pool, url, error or ResponseError(cause))
    593 
    594         log.debug("Incremented Retry for (url='%s'): %r", url, new_retry)

MaxRetryError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='controller.pinecone_environment.pinecone.io', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /databases (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7c49123b05e0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -2] Name or service not known'))

### Environment

```markdown
- **OS**: MacOS 14.1
- **Pinecone client version**: ? (in google colab)

Additional Context

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