Description

I am working on my Facebook app which I already mentioned before but maybe didn’t publish a direct link yet: https://www.staytunedapp.com as it is still in a beta mode.

I had an issue with Facebook in the last few days\week while seeing an exception on my development server:

CurlException: 6: name lookup timed out, referer: …

Suggested solution

I looked for a solution and the only one I have found was changing the CURL timeout.

  1. Open Facebook PHP SDK path/base_facebook.php
  2. Go to line 134
  3. Change CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT=10 to CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT=30 or more (30 worked for me)

http://milkcodes.blogspot.co.il/2010/12/php-fatal-error-uncaught-curlexception.html

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5114597/how-to-solve-problem-of-curlexception-6-name-lookup-time-out-error-in-facebook

Enjoy