How to avoid "Timeout getting IP address" error

Archive Rancher 1.x
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Rancher V1.6.25
After getting error “Timeout getting IP address”, rancher will retry serval times, it will be success at last. But it waste me too much time.

Some log details:
2019-09-04 08:30:20,411 ERROR [:] [] [] [] [utorService-987] [.e.s.i.ProcessInstanceDispatcherImpl] Agent error for [compute.instance.activate.reply;agent=6775]: Timeout getting IP address
2019-09-04 08:30:28,145 ERROR [12cfb867-29d5-45c6-b7d8-beff2d45d6b7:793208] [instance:16789->instanceHostMap:16785] [instance.start->(InstanceStart)->instancehostmap.activate] [] [utorService-985] [c.p.e.p.i.DefaultProcessInstanceImpl] Agent error for [compute.instance.activate.reply;agent=6775]: Timeout getting IP address
2019-09-04 08:30:28,145 ERROR [12cfb867-29d5-45c6-b7d8-beff2d45d6b7:793208] [instance:16789] [instance.start->(InstanceStart)] [] [utorService-985] [i.c.p.process.instance.InstanceStart] Failed [3/5] to Starting for instance [16789]
2019-09-04 08:30:28,149 ERROR [a927f6ba-8d67-453f-a567-fb226e0a64d3:793211] [instance:16790->instanceHostMap:16786] [instance.start->(InstanceStart)->instancehostmap.activate] [] [utorService-990] [c.p.e.p.i.DefaultProcessInstanceImpl] Agent error for [compute.instance.activate.reply;agent=6781]: Timeout getting IP address
2019-09-04 08:30:28,149 ERROR [a927f6ba-8d67-453f-a567-fb226e0a64d3:793211] [instance:16790] [instance.start->(InstanceStart)] [] [utorService-990] [i.c.p.process.instance.InstanceStart] Failed [3/5] to Starting for instance [16790]
2019-09-04 08:30:28,189 ERROR [a927f6ba-8d67-453f-a567-fb226e0a64d3:793211] [instance:16790->instanceHostMap:16786] [instance.start->(InstanceStart)->instancehostmap.activate] [] [utorService-990] [c.p.e.p.i.DefaultProcessInstanceImpl] Agent error for [compute.instance.activate.reply;agent=6781]: Timeout getting IP address
2019-09-04 08:30:28,189 ERROR [a927f6ba-8d67-453f-a567-fb226e0a64d3:793211] [instance:16790] [instance.start->(InstanceStart)] [] [utorService-990] [i.c.p.process.instance.InstanceStart] Failed [4/5] to Starting for instance [16790]
2019-09-04 08:30:28,191 ERROR [12cfb867-29d5-45c6-b7d8-beff2d45d6b7:793208] [instance:16789->instanceHostMap:16785] [instance.start->(InstanceStart)->instancehostmap.activate] [] [utorService-985] [c.p.e.p.i.DefaultProcessInstanceImpl] Agent error for [compute.instance.activate.reply;agent=6775]: Timeout getting IP address
2019-09-04 08:30:28,191 ERROR [12cfb867-29d5-45c6-b7d8-beff2d45d6b7:793208] [instance:16789] [instance.start->(InstanceStart)] [] [utorService-985] [i.c.p.process.instance.InstanceStart] Failed [4/5] to Starting for instance [16789]
2019-09-04 08:31:00,053 ERROR [12cfb867-29d5-45c6-b7d8-beff2d45d6b7:793208] [instance:16789->instanceHostMap:16785] [instance.start->(InstanceStart)->instancehostmap.activate] [] [utorService-985] [c.p.e.p.i.DefaultProcessInstanceImpl] Agent error for [compute.instance.activate.reply;agent=6775]: Timeout getting IP address
2019-09-04 08:31:00,054 ERROR [12cfb867-29d5-45c6-b7d8-beff2d45d6b7:793208] [instance:16789] [instance.start->(InstanceStart)] [] [utorService-985] [i.c.p.process.instance.InstanceStart] Failed [5/5] to Starting for instance [16789]
2019-09-04 08:31:00,055 ERROR [a927f6ba-8d67-453f-a567-fb226e0a64d3:793211] [instance:16790->instanceHostMap:16786] [instance.start->(InstanceStart)->instancehostmap.activate] [] [utorService-990] [c.p.e.p.i.DefaultProcessInstanceImpl] Agent error for [compute.instance.activate.reply;agent=6781]: Timeout getting IP address
2019-09-04 08:31:00,057 ERROR [a927f6ba-8d67-453f-a567-fb226e0a64d3:793211] [instance:16790] [instance.start->(InstanceStart)] [] [utorService-990] [i.c.p.process.instance.InstanceStart] Failed [5/5] to Starting for instance [16790]
2019-09-04 08:31:00,150 ERROR [12cfb867-29d5-45c6-b7d8-beff2d45d6b7:793208] [instance:16789] [instance.start] [] [utorService-985] [c.p.e.p.i.DefaultProcessInstanceImpl] Agent error for [compute.instance.activate.reply;agent=6775]: Timeout getting IP address
2019-09-04 08:31:00,249 ERROR [a927f6ba-8d67-453f-a567-fb226e0a64d3:793211] [instance:16790] [instance.start] [] [utorService-990] [c.p.e.p.i.DefaultProcessInstanceImpl] Agent error for [compute.instance.activate.reply;agent=6781]: Timeout getting IP address
2019-09-04 08:31:00,267 ERROR [:] [] [] [] [utorService-985] [.e.s.i.ProcessInstanceDispatcherImpl] Agent error for [compute.instance.activate.reply;agent=6775]: Timeout getting IP address
2019-09-04 08:31:00,341 ERROR [:] [] [] [] [utorService-990] [.e.s.i.ProcessInstanceDispatcherImpl] Agent error for [compute.instance.activate.reply;agent=6781]: Timeout getting IP address

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There is not enough information here to give any insight. Does it happen randomly? Or after certain actions executed, if so, which one(s)? Logging from other infrastructure services regarding network and metadata usually helps to nail down what is causing the issue.