I just recently dealt with a timeout issue in requests: I was setting the timeout to 1 but it took 10 seconds for the request to fail. It turns out that the tim

I just recently dealt with a timeout issue in requests: I was setting the timeout to 1 but it took 10 seconds for the request to fail. It turns out that the timeout does not apply to the name resolver and the name lookup was timing out. So the default system-level timeout was 10 seconds.