id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
16870	consider disabling HTTP transport after multiple failed requests	dd32		"There has been a number of reports over the lifespan of the cURL HTTP transport failing with an error during upgrades:
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WP HTTP Error: name lookup timed out
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This is a common error from cURL on badly configured installations (specifically, IIRC it lacks DNS Resolving in cURL, sometimes it just required an extended amount of time to resolve, others, it simply can't resolve)

Like we do with fsockopen() I think it'd be worth disabling the cURL transport for x hours when it hits this particular error condition..

Related threads: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/dashboard-issues-rss-error-wp-http-error-name-lookup-timed-out and http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugins-update-failure  Both old threads, so this may only affect a PHP4 version of cURL.. For tracking purposes, I've finally created this ticket."	enhancement	new	normal	Future Release	HTTP	2.9	normal		2nd-opinion needs-patch