# Encountered exception during recovery: socket.timeout: timed out

**URL:** https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/encountered-exception-during-recovery-socket-timeout-timed-out/196512
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [April 15, 2023, 9:26pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/encountered-exception-during-recovery-socket-timeout-timed-out/196512 "2023-04-15T21:26:05Z")
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### Author: ![\_az](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/22d042/32.png) [@\_az](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/_az)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2023, 1:01am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/encountered-exception-during-recovery-socket-timeout-timed-out/196512/8 "2023-04-16T01:01:44Z")

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This looks like a network communication issue between your EC2 instance and the Google Cloud Platform servers, probably to [https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token](https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token).

Unfortunately I don't have any useful advice to give you, other than the standard investigations (are you using a proxy, are you using IPv6 networking, are you doing anything unusual on your VPC NAT etc).

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