From 267b715bfabf933703970d7e13362ffa7cb9440b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "J. Nick Koston" <nick@home-assistant.io>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2025 11:11:45 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] safer

---
 esphome/helpers.py | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/esphome/helpers.py b/esphome/helpers.py
index a2c6dd7d49..775acd0d0c 100644
--- a/esphome/helpers.py
+++ b/esphome/helpers.py
@@ -240,16 +240,18 @@ def resolve_ip_address(
 
     # If we have uncached hosts (only non-IP hostnames), resolve them
     if uncached_hosts:
+        from aioesphomeapi.host_resolver import AddrInfo as AioAddrInfo
+
         from esphome.core import EsphomeError
         from esphome.resolver import AsyncResolver
 
         resolver = AsyncResolver(uncached_hosts, port)
+        addr_infos: list[AioAddrInfo] = []
         try:
             addr_infos = resolver.resolve()
         except EsphomeError as err:
             if res:
-                _LOGGER.warning(err)
-                addr_infos = []
+                _LOGGER.info("%s (using %d cached IP addresses)", err, len(res))
             else:
                 raise