Ruby Net::OpenTimeout: execution expired

Question

I\'m consistently getting this error on several hosts on my machine, e.g.:

require \'open-uri\'
open(\'https://google.com\').read


Net::OpenTimeout: execution e         


        

Answer 1

Looks like it's a an issue with how Ruby resolves DNS.

Added require 'resolv-replace' and now it's opening connections immediately.

Sources: https://stackoverflow.com/a/27485369/116925 https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/597#issuecomment-40507119