Title: Connection errors
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Connection errors

 *  Resolved [felixstowe.property.news](https://wordpress.org/support/users/felixstowepropertynews/)
 * (@felixstowepropertynews)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/connection-errors/)
 * Hi
 * I get the following errors showing up in dashboard.
 * RSS Error: WP HTTP Error: Couldn’t resolve host ‘planet.wordpress.org’
 * RSS Error: WP HTTP Error: Couldn’t resolve host ‘wordpress.org’
 * Any idea what could be causing this – blog otherwise working fine
 * Thanks
 * Rich

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 *  [Krishna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/1nexus/)
 * (@1nexus)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/connection-errors/#post-2970154)
 * Your site URL?
 *  Thread Starter [felixstowe.property.news](https://wordpress.org/support/users/felixstowepropertynews/)
 * (@felixstowepropertynews)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/connection-errors/#post-2970157)
 * Sorry, it’s
 * [http://felixstowepropertynews.com](http://felixstowepropertynews.com)
 *  [Krishna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/1nexus/)
 * (@1nexus)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/connection-errors/#post-2970211)
 * Do you find the errors always, or once in a while?
 *  Thread Starter [felixstowe.property.news](https://wordpress.org/support/users/felixstowepropertynews/)
 * (@felixstowepropertynews)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/connection-errors/#post-2970219)
 * It’s the first time it’s happened – the blog is appox 2 yrs old now.
 *  [Krishna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/1nexus/)
 * (@1nexus)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/connection-errors/#post-2970220)
 * Do you find any other problems in your dashboard?
 *  Thread Starter [felixstowe.property.news](https://wordpress.org/support/users/felixstowepropertynews/)
 * (@felixstowepropertynews)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/connection-errors/#post-2970223)
 * Yes,
 * ‘RSS Error: WP HTTP Error: Couldn’t resolve host blogsearch.google.com’
 * also show under the ‘incoming links’ tab.
 *  [Krishna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/1nexus/)
 * (@1nexus)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/connection-errors/#post-2970230)
 * Try replacing wp-includes from a fresh download of WordPress.
 *  Thread Starter [felixstowe.property.news](https://wordpress.org/support/users/felixstowepropertynews/)
 * (@felixstowepropertynews)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/connection-errors/#post-2970358)
 * OK will try that thanks
 *  Thread Starter [felixstowe.property.news](https://wordpress.org/support/users/felixstowepropertynews/)
 * (@felixstowepropertynews)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/connection-errors/#post-2970445)
 * Sorted now Thanks.
 * Turned out to be a corrupt file – web host ran a backup and now running smoothly.
 *  [CouponCodePlugin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/couponcodeplugin/)
 * (@couponcodeplugin)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/connection-errors/#post-2970539)
 * We have been seeing an increasing number of customers who have this issue. After
   checking, we found that the issue was not a plugin (even though activating one
   of the plugins caused this issue) but it was a RLimit that hostgator implement
   which was causing the issue. It seems that once a limit is reached, all connections
   are blocked.
    This explains why it is not just one connection or location being
   effected. Unfortunately, hostgator do not seem to check the RLimit unless you
   actually force them to do so. Hope this helps others with a similar issue.

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## Tags

 * [connection](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/connection/)
 * [rss error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/rss-error/)
 * [WP HTTP Error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wp-http-error/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 10 replies
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