What could cause “connect ETIMEDOUT” error when the URL is working in browser?

Question

I train myslef with NodeJS and tried a simple GET call. Here is my code:

var http = require(\'http\');

var options = {
    host: \'www.boardgamegeek.com\',
             


        

Answer 1

I was facing this issue on Ubuntu Server while maintaining a node instance on PM2. Basically after restarting the instance after taking the pull I was getting the same error on initial connection of mySQL inside the code.

Error: connect ETIMEDOUT
at Connection._handleConnectTimeout (/home/deam_server/node_modules/mysql/lib/Connection.js:419:13)
at Object.onceWrapper (events.js:275:13)
at Socket.emit (events.js:182:13)
at Socket.EventEmitter.emit (domain.js:442:20)
at Socket._onTimeout (net.js:447:8)
at ontimeout (timers.js:427:11)
at tryOnTimeout (timers.js:289:5)
at listOnTimeout (timers.js:252:5)
at Timer.processTimers (timers.js:212:10)

Though the same code was running perfectly on my local machine. After that I used "df" command which helped me to realise that my root directory was 100% occupied. I allotted some memory to the root directory and the restarted the node instance and then it started working fine.