Title: Hanging
Last modified: March 26, 2019

---

# Hanging

 *  [emptyobject](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emptyobject/)
 * (@emptyobject)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hanging/)
 * Thanks for the toolkit!
 * With the plugin installed and enabled, and either of the options “Use Spamcop”
   or “Use Project Honeypot” checked, every page-load hangs, often resulting in 
   timeout errors which render the entire site unusable. WordPress and this plugin
   are fully updated, and otherwise working well.

Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total)

 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Sterup](https://wordpress.org/support/users/foomagoo/)
 * (@foomagoo)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hanging/#post-11366960)
 * Can you login to your server and do one of the following commands?
 *     ```
       host 32.124.247.170.bl.spamcop.net
       dig 32.124.247.170.bl.spamcop.net
       ```
   
 * This will do a dns lookup. If the commands timeout then your server is blocked
   from doing DNS queries. These are linux commands. If you are running windows 
   run the following command.
 * `nslookup 32.124.247.170.bl.spamcop.net`
 * If those commands work you can get to spamcop. Then try one of these commands.
   Replace [phapikey] with your project honeypot api key.
 *     ```
       host [phapikey].32.124.247.170.dnsbl.httpbl.org
       dig [phapikey].32.124.247.170.dnsbl.httpbl.org
       ```
   
 * `nslookup [phapikey].32.124.247.170.dnsbl.httpbl.org`
 * If those commands work then you can get to project honeypot.
 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Sterup](https://wordpress.org/support/users/foomagoo/)
 * (@foomagoo)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hanging/#post-11368386)
 * The plugin does this lookup on each page load to determine if an IP is on the
   Project Honeypot or Spamcop black lists. If those commands are timing out it 
   will explain why your pages are timing out.
 *  Thread Starter [emptyobject](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emptyobject/)
 * (@emptyobject)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hanging/#post-11375996)
 * Doing these commands returns errors for any subdomains listed above. So httpbl.
   org works, but bl.httpbl.org does not. Any idea? This is strange behavior to 
   me.
 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Sterup](https://wordpress.org/support/users/foomagoo/)
 * (@foomagoo)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hanging/#post-11379328)
 * What error is being returned?
 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Sterup](https://wordpress.org/support/users/foomagoo/)
 * (@foomagoo)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hanging/#post-11379334)
 * bl.httpbl.org isn’t valid. It’s dnsbl.httpbl.org.

Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total)

The topic ‘Hanging’ is closed to new replies.

 * ![](https://ps.w.org/honeypot-toolkit/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=1791405)
 * [Honeypot Toolkit](https://wordpress.org/plugins/honeypot-toolkit/)
 * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/honeypot-toolkit/#faq)
 * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/honeypot-toolkit/)
 * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/honeypot-toolkit/active/)
 * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/honeypot-toolkit/unresolved/)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/honeypot-toolkit/reviews/)

 * 5 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Jeff Sterup](https://wordpress.org/support/users/foomagoo/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hanging/#post-11379334)
 * Status: not resolved