Curl Connection Timeout in Rootless Mode behind Cloudflare #27365

Danil-atp · 2025-10-25T10:20:57Z

Danil-atp
Oct 25, 2025

Sorry for the dumb question, I’m trying to figure this out. Curl doesn’t work 80% of the time in rootless mode if the website is behind Cloudflare — I get a connection timeout.
Here’s the test result:
podman network create --subnet 10.89.30.0/24 --gateway 10.89.30.1 test_net

behind Cloudflare:

podman run -it --network test_net alpine apk add curl && curl -4 -v https://medium.com --max-time 10

 ipv4 connect timeout after 4992ms, move on!
 *  Trying 162.159.153.4:443...
 * Connection timed out after 10001 milliseconds
 * Closing connection 0
curl: (28) Connection timed out after 10001 milliseconds

podman run -it --network test_net alpine apk add curl && curl -4 -v https://download.maxmind.com --max-time 10

* ipv4 connect timeout after 4981ms, move on!
*   Trying 162.159.134.22:443...
* Connection timed out after 10000 milliseconds
* Closing connection 0
curl: (28) Connection timed out after 10000 milliseconds

podman run -it --network test_net alpine nslookup download.maxmind.com

Server:		185.12.64.1
Address:	185.12.64.1:53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:	download.maxmind.com
Address: 162.159.134.22
Name:	download.maxmind.com
Address: 162.159.135.22

outside Cloudflare:

podman run -it --network test_net alpine apk add curl && curl -4 -v https://google.com --max-time 10

<TITLE>301 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>
<H1>301 Moved</H1>
The document has moved


 podman run -it --network test_net alpine apk add curl && curl -4 -v https://shopify.com --max-time 10

<html>
<head><title>301 Moved Permanently</title></head>
<body>

podman network inspect test_net  

[
     {
          "name": "test_net",
          "id": "27bf89a9452003ad0d4f1a234d3df84fc56fbb2db9456932e1124f7c4708e696",
          "driver": "bridge",
          "network_interface": "cni-podman2",
          "created": "2025-10-25T11:05:23.993044134+02:00",
          "subnets": [
               {
                    "subnet": "10.89.30.0/24",
                    "gateway": "10.89.30.1"
               }
          ],
          "ipv6_enabled": false,
          "internal": false,
          "dns_enabled": false,
          "ipam_options": {
               "driver": "host-local"
          }
     }
]

If anyone can explain why this happens, I’d appreciate it.
Thanks for help.

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