https://travis-ci.org/wikimedia/pywikibot-core/jobs/227896179#L5221
====================================================================== ERROR: test_newest (tests.weblinkchecker_tests.TestMementoDefault) Test getting memento for newest https://google.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/travis/build/wikimedia/pywikibot-core/tests/weblinkchecker_tests.py", line 82, in test_newest archivedversion = self._get_archive_url('https://google.com') File "/home/travis/build/wikimedia/pywikibot-core/tests/weblinkchecker_tests.py", line 37, in _get_archive_url self.timegate_uri) File "/home/travis/build/wikimedia/pywikibot-core/scripts/weblinkchecker.py", line 191, in _get_closest_memento_url memento_info = mc.get_memento_info(url, when) File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7_with_system_site_packages/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/memento_client/memento_client.py", line 148, in get_memento_info follow_redirects=True) File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7_with_system_site_packages/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/memento_client/memento_client.py", line 546, in request_head allow_redirects=follow_redirects) File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7_with_system_site_packages/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/api.py", line 96, in head return request('head', url, **kwargs) File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7_with_system_site_packages/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/api.py", line 56, in request return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs) File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7_with_system_site_packages/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 488, in request resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs) File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7_with_system_site_packages/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 630, in send history = [resp for resp in gen] if allow_redirects else [] File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7_with_system_site_packages/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 190, in resolve_redirects **adapter_kwargs File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7_with_system_site_packages/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 609, in send r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs) File "/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7_with_system_site_packages/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 487, in send raise ConnectionError(e, request=request) ConnectionError: HTTPConnectionPool(host='web.archive.org', port=80): Max retries exceeded with url: /web/20170421070653/http://www.google.com/ (Caused by NewConnectionError('<requests.packages.urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x7fc5be4074d0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 110] Connection timed out',))
This error is similar to the one in T164208, solution might be similar, too.