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ETIMEDOUT in Node.js — What It Means and How to Fix It

What the Node.js/npm error ETIMEDOUT means and how to resolve it.

Published October 25, 2026

ETIMEDOUT means a network operation took longer than the allowed time and was aborted.

Key points

  • Can indicate a genuinely slow or unreachable remote server, or a local firewall silently dropping packets
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