# timing out

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/timing-out/22726>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [October 5, 2016, 2:07pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/timing-out/22726 "2016-10-05T14:07:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Tanuj\_Chinnu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@Tanuj\_Chinnu](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tanuj_Chinnu)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 2:07pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/timing-out/22726/1 "2016-10-05T14:07:31Z")

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fatal: [myhostname]: FAILED! =\> {“changed”: false, “elapsed”: 300, “failed”: true, “msg”: “Timeout when waiting for 127.0.0.1:portnumber”}

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**Author:** ![David\_Norman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@David\_Norman](https://forum.ansible.com/u/David_Norman)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2016, 4:33pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/timing-out/22726/2 "2016-10-06T16:33:51Z")

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Did you put a literal string “portnumber” in your hostname instead of a numeric port?

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