paypal timeout on check out

[jsteggy]

I've been getting this error for a couple weeks. dreamhost says nothing is changed on their side.
I've applied all the patches I've seen posted. Any help or ides are appreciated. I can post more detail, just let me know what would be helpful.

Thanks


This is the error.

Response:
Array
(
    [] =>
    [CURL_ERRORS] => (7) Failed to connect to api-3t.paypal.com port 443: Connection timed out
)

(7) Failed to connect to api-3t.paypal.com port 443: Connection timed out
Array
(
    [url] => https://api-3t.paypal.com/nvp
    [content_type] =>
    [http_code] => 0
    [header_size] => 0
    [request_size] => 0
    [filetime] => -1
    [ssl_verify_result] => 0
    [redirect_count] => 0
    [total_time] => 8.749254
    [namelookup_time] => 3.5E-5
    [connect_time] => 0
    [pretransfer_time] => 0
    [size_upload] => 0
    [size_download] => 0
    [speed_download] => 0
    [speed_upload] => 0
    [download_content_length] => -1
    [upload_content_length] => -1
    [starttransfer_time] => 0
    [redirect_time] => 0
    [redirect_url] =>
    [primary_ip] =>
    [certinfo] => Array
        (
        )

    [primary_port] => 0
    [local_ip] =>
    [local_port] => 0
)


SetExpressCheckout, Elapsed: 8751ms -- Failed
(7) Failed to connect to api-3t.paypal.com port 443: Connection timed out
Array
(
    [url] => https://api-3t.paypal.com/nvp
    [content_type] =>
    [http_code] => 0
    [header_size] => 0
    [request_size] => 0
    [filetime] => -1
    [ssl_verify_result] => 0
    [redirect_count] => 0
    [total_time] => 8.749254
    [namelookup_time] => 3.5E-5
    [connect_time] => 0
    [pretransfer_time] => 0
    [size_upload] => 0
    [size_download] => 0
    [speed_download] => 0
    [speed_upload] => 0
    [download_content_length] => -1
    [upload_content_length] => -1
    [starttransfer_time] => 0
    [redirect_time] => 0
    [redirect_url] =>
    [primary_ip] =>
    [certinfo] => Array
        (
        )

    [primary_port] => 0
    [local_ip] =>
    [local_port] => 0
)