# \#\<Net::OpenTimeout: execution expired\>

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/net-execution-expired/225756
**Category:** General
**Created:** [April 30, 2022, 3:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/net-execution-expired/225756 "2022-04-30T15:58:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 1

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### Author: ![sunjam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sunjam/32/175682_2.png) [@sunjam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sunjam)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2022, 3:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/net-execution-expired/225756/1 "2022-04-30T15:58:50Z")

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Helping @rakekniven sort out forum performance issues and users are no longer able to upload images. This error has been cropping up a lot. [Seems this person is also having similar errors and is also unable to upload images](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-trying-to-edit-a-post/225236).

> **Plugins on the forum**
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```plaintext
Message (661 copies reported) on 2.9.0.beta4 

#<Net::OpenTimeout: execution expired>

Backtrace

/usr/local/lib/ruby/2.7.0/net/http.rb:960:in initialize' /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.7.0/net/http.rb:960:in open’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/2.7.0/net/http.rb:960:in block in connect' /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.7.0/timeout.rb:105:in timeout’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/2.7.0/net/http.rb:958:in connect' /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.7.0/net/http.rb:943:in do_start’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/2.7.0/net/http.rb:932:in start' /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.7.0/net/http.rb:606:in start’
/var/www/discourse/lib/final_destination.rb:515:in safe_session' /var/www/discourse/lib/final_destination.rb:455:in safe_get’

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### Author: ![sunjam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sunjam/32/175682_2.png) [@sunjam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sunjam)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2022, 8:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/net-execution-expired/225756/3 "2022-04-30T20:37:19Z")

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Upload error

```plaintext
Net::OpenTimeout : execution expired

Message (273757 copies reported)

Failed to process hijacked response correctly : Net::OpenTimeout : execution expired

Backtrace

/usr/local/lib/ruby/2.7.0/net/http.rb:960:in initialize' /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.7.0/net/http.rb:960:in open’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/2.7.0/net/http.rb:960:in block in connect' /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.7.0/timeout.rb:105:in timeout’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/2.7.0/net/http.rb:958:in connect' /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.7.0/net/http.rb:943:in do_start’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/2.7.0/net/http.rb:932:in start' /usr/local/lib/ruby/2.7.0/net/http.rb:606:in start’
/var/www/discourse/lib/final_destination.rb:515:in safe_session' /var/www/discourse/lib/final_destination.rb:455:in safe_get’
/var/www/discourse/lib/final_destination.rb:147:in get' /var/www/discourse/lib/file_helper.rb:68:in download’
/var/www/discourse/app/controllers/user_avatars_controller.rb:158:in proxy_avatar' /var/www/discourse/app/controllers/user_avatars_controller.rb:51:in block in show_proxy_letter’
/var/www/discourse/lib/hijack.rb:56:in instance_eval' /var/www/discourse/lib/hijack.rb:56:in block in hijack’
/var/www/discourse/lib/scheduler/defer.rb:94:in block in do_work' rails_multisite-4.0.1/lib/rails_multisite/connection_management.rb:80:in with_connection’
/var/www/discourse/lib/scheduler/defer.rb:89:in do_work' /var/www/discourse/lib/scheduler/defer.rb:79:in block (2 levels) in start_thread’

Env

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### Author: ![sunjam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sunjam/32/175682_2.png) [@sunjam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sunjam)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2022, 4:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/net-execution-expired/225756/4 "2022-05-12T16:05:07Z")

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[Found this](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42036133/ruby-netopentimeout-execution-expired/42043142) on stackoverflow for resolving the issue in Ruby:

> It seems to be a problem with certain versions of libc which resolve DNS routes. After spending couple hours to search solution you just need to add `require 'resolv-replace'` at the beginning of your code.
> 
> More information: [Use Ruby DNS resolver to handle DNS timeout in Net::HTTP by pranas · Pull Request #597 · ruby/ruby · GitHub](https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/597#issuecomment-40507119)
> 
> Hope this help somebody in the future.