insight.dash.org has a AAAA DNS record (ipv6) registered, but is ONLY listening on the A (ipv4) address (or the firewall is just dropping ipv6 traffic entirely).
This causes a timeout for people who are on Comcast, Cox and other networks which use IPv6 by default when available.
Fail:
Error: connect ETIMEDOUT 2600:1f14:14c:4006:8c85:66c2:e136:f339:443
at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (node:net:1300:16)
IPv4 for insight.dash.org
dig A @8.8.8.8 insight.dash.org
insight.dash.org. 300 IN CNAME mainnet-insight.dashevo.org.
mainnet-insight.dashevo.org. 60 IN A 52.42.236.28
mainnet-insight.dashevo.org. 60 IN A 44.230.102.204
IPv6 for insight.dash.org
dig AAAA @8.8.8.8 insight.dash.org
;; ANSWER SECTION:
insight.dash.org. 300 IN CNAME mainnet-insight.dashevo.org.
mainnet-insight.dashevo.org. 60 IN AAAA 2600:1f14:14c:4006:8c85:66c2:e136:f339
mainnet-insight.dashevo.org. 60 IN AAAA 2600:1f14:14c:4004:5c06:e588:6ad1:59d3
ping6 insight.dash.org
# hangs
Workaround
Disable IPv6 on your computer... 🤦♀️

insight.dash.orghas a AAAA DNS record (ipv6) registered, but is ONLY listening on the A (ipv4) address (or the firewall is just dropping ipv6 traffic entirely).This causes a timeout for people who are on Comcast, Cox and other networks which use IPv6 by default when available.
Fail: Error: connect ETIMEDOUT 2600:1f14:14c:4006:8c85:66c2:e136:f339:443 at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (node:net:1300:16)IPv4 for insight.dash.org
IPv6 for insight.dash.org
ping6 insight.dash.org # hangsWorkaround
Disable IPv6 on your computer... 🤦♀️