Dashboard issues: RSS Error: WP HTTP Error: name lookup timed out

Hi pixelmommy. I’ve got the same issue. 8.0 is fine, but 8.1, 8.2 & 8.3 cause the same issue.

My backups no longer send, i get not notification of comments, no notification of plugin updates.. and no idea how to fix it :S

If you have a solution please please reply 🙂

thanks

Follow-up to my above message: I just triple checked that all my plugins were up-to-date and they are. I also tried deactivating all my plugins, logging out, then logging back in again: same issue. Then I tried changing the language preference in the config.php file from French to English — no difference. I’ve double checked file permissions too.

Anybody else out there having this problem or have a suggestion for a fix? It seems like a significant security issue, because if I didn’t happen to have other WP installations going that DON’T have this problem, i probably wouldn’t notice that WP had been updated, or any of my extensions for that matter, because no notification shows up…

Thanks!

i tried the edit to the class-wp-upgrader.php suggested here: http://ocaoimh.ie/wordpress-mu-2-8-3/ but it still didn’t work.

I also carried out a manual upgrade to 2.8.3 on one of the three WP installations relating to this domain, and that didn’t fix it either.

Six hours later…big sigh. Time for a break. Help?

I have two installs of WP running on two identically-equipped Lunarpages hosts. When I went to apply today’s 2.8.4 upgrade, one install gave me the error, the other did not. I decided to finally figure this out for good.

The problem for me is caused by lines 1276-1277 of the WP_Http_Curl request() method in wp-includes/http.php. I commented those lines out and threw in a line of debug code on line 1325 (after the curl_exec call)

print_r(curl_getinfo($handle));

and tested the cURL transport using Core Control. I found that my requests were simply taking longer than the timeout. I don’t know quite why that would be, except to guess that the shared server of my one install must be really swamped.

I fixed it by building myself a little plugin that adds an action for the 'http_api_curl' action called on line 1315.

After enabling this fix, WP showed the 2.8.4 upgrade button on the Dashboard page, but the WordPress Development Blog and Plugins sections still showed timeout errors. So, I also looked further and added a filter to my plugin hack to catch and modify $r['timeout'] in the WP_Http request() method on line 237.

Here’s is my plugin code, which overrides all timeouts to a massive 15 seconds:

//adjustments to wp-includes/http.php timeout values to workaround slow server responses
add_filter('http_request_args', 'bal_http_request_args', 100, 1);
function bal_http_request_args($r) //called on line 237
{
	$r['timeout'] = 15;
	return $r;
}

add_action('http_api_curl', 'bal_http_api_curl', 100, 1);
function bal_http_api_curl($handle) //called on line 1315
{
	curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 15 );
	curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 15 );
}

I recommend you make sure this does not cause any other issues for your WP install. If you know how to make this code into a plugin, then you are capable enuf to be responsible for any adverse fallout. 🙂 I only know this solved my immediate problem while still maintaining cURL functionality.

Hello, I have 5 sites at 1Dollar-webhosting all with the same problem and the tech support doesn’t even answer their email.

I tried the plugin described above (remember to enclose the code in a <?php (at the beginning) and ?> (at the end)

and it doesn’t work

The plugin loads fine but I get the same timeout errors and Core Control shows an error on the cURL transport.

HOW TO FIX THIS ERROR ?????????? My wp-o-matics are all stalled !!!

Thanks for any expert’s help out there !! (my hoster sure isn’t going to help

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Curl Timod
Version: 1.0
Plugin URI: http://none
Description: modify timeout vals
Author: fix
*/
//adjustments to wp-includes/http.php timeout values to workaround slow server responses
add_filter(‘http_request_args’, ‘bal_http_request_args’, 100, 1);
function bal_http_request_args($r)
{
$r[‘timeout’] = 15;
return $r;
}

add_action(‘http_api_curl’, ‘bal_http_api_curl’, 100, 1);
function bal_http_api_curl($handle) //called on line 1315
{
curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 15 );
curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 15 );
}
?>

Hi,

Check with these steps:

1) comment these lines from wp-includes/http.php file:

curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $r['timeout'] );
curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $r['timeout'] );

2) save this code in any .php file and upload it in plugins directory and activate it.

<?php
add_filter('http_request_args', 'bal_http_request_args', 100, 1);
function bal_http_request_args($r) //called on line 237
{
	$r['timeout'] = 15;
	return $r;
}

add_action('http_api_curl', 'bal_http_api_curl', 100, 1);
function bal_http_api_curl($handle) //called on line 1315
{
	curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 15 );
	curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 15 );
}
?>

Thanks,

Shane G.

Hello,

I read all posts above but I still don’t understand how to get rid of this message in my Dashboard “WP HTTP Error: name lookup timed out”.
The issue occurred when I upgraded to 2.9.1.
Could someone please provide me with a step by step explanation of how to solve this issue?

Thanks a lot in advance.

Anton
http://www.doordebenen.nl