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Connection timeouts

Connection timeouts

joe_walker
Helpful | Level 5
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Hi,

From approximately 22:30 UTC on 27 Oct until present we have been getting timeouts when trying to connect to the Dropbox API:

cURL error 7: Failed to connect to content.dropboxapi.com port 443: Connection timed out (see http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html)

Traceroute to content.dropbox.com is as follows:

traceroute to content.dropboxapi.com (162.125.83.8), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  vzsrv03.vps.apdcsy1.digitalpacific.com.au (101.0.66.201)  0.051 ms  0.031 ms  0.030 ms
 2  vlan-1046.dsw01-pod01.apdcsy1.as55803.net.au (101.0.126.101)  2.174 ms  2.179 ms  2.137 ms
 3  ae2-0.cor01.apdcsy1.as55803.net.au (101.0.125.121)  0.593 ms ae2-0.cor02.apdcsy1.as55803.net.au (101.0.125.113)  0.631 ms  0.587 ms
 4  ae0-0.bdr01.apdcsy1.as55803.net.au (101.0.127.113)  1.213 ms ae1-0.bdr01.apdcsy1.as55803.net.au (101.0.127.121)  1.165 ms ae0-0.bdr01.apdcsy1.as55803.net.au (101.0.127.113)  1.123 ms
 5  lt-2-2-0-10.bdr01.eqsy3.as55803.net.au (101.0.126.124)  0.490 ms  0.438 ms  0.413 ms
 6  ten-0-2-0-7-101.bdr01.syd03.nsw.vocus.net.au (49.255.198.124)  0.881 ms  1.021 ms  1.044 ms
 7  BE-107.cor01.syd11.nsw.VOCUS.net.au (114.31.192.80)  0.752 ms BE-107.cor02.syd04.nsw.VOCUS.net.au (114.31.192.82)  0.754 ms  1.165 ms
 8  BE-100.bdr02.syd03.nsw.VOCUS.net.au (114.31.192.39)  1.086 ms  1.072 ms  1.076 ms
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10  po1-syd2-ea01.net.dropbox.com (162.125.86.189)  0.940 ms  0.955 ms  0.963 ms
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joe_walker
Helpful | Level 5
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I have just received a reply from Digital Pacific explaining that:

"We erroneously blocked the IP due to suspicion of it being involved in a large attack on our networks, This error has now been corrected and the block reverted"

So this problem was with the host - my apologies for wasting your time. Thanks very much for your help.

Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
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Ok, thanks for letting us know!

Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
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Hi @joe_walker,

Everything you have reported point to some problem in network configuration of your machine. If you want to use IPv6 then all devices seating on the route between content.dropboxapi.com and your machine should be configured properly to use the protocol. Even one misconfiguration is enough to reach such a result. Try "traceroute6 content.dropboxapi.com" to figure out where exactly is the problem. If the error message is reported immediately, you are working on misconfigured machine (or if DHCP is used then corresponding router(s) could be problematic). While resolving the issue you can use the @Greg-DB's workaround (force use of IPv4). :wink: From your initial post could be concluded that will work for you (it's in fact IPv4 trace).

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