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joe_walker
Helpful | Level 5
6 years ago

Connection timeouts

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 44...
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    joe_walker
    6 years ago

    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.

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