YouTube fails with urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused

[arschficken]

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If the purpose of this issue is a bug report, site support request or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:

Add the -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with (youtube-dl -v <your command line>), copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzD2FklTmfc']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2019.01.17
[debug] Python version 2.7.15rc1 (CPython) - Linux-4.19.0-041900rc7-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-18.04-bionic
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.4.4, ffprobe 3.4.4, phantomjs ., rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] bzD2FklTmfc: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused> (caused by URLError(error(111, 'Connection refused'),))
  File "/home/user/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 605, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/home/user/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2212, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 429, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 447, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 407, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/home/user/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 1140, in https_open
    req, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1198, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Downloading from YouTube fails with Errno 111: Connection refused, even with the latest version of youtube-dl. Used to work fine on this machine with the same OS (Ubuntu 18.04), same internet connection (home ADSL, no proxy). Downloading from e.g. Vimeo works fine.

Some parameters tried that did not resolve the issue: user-agent, referer, prefer-insecure, force-ipv4.

[dstftw]

Network issue on your side.

[arschficken]

You are absolutely right. This was caused by a hosts file based firewall. Fixed when I removed the rule. A more descriptive error would be useful, but it's definitely not a youtube-dl problem.

Thanks for looking into it.

[nate2014jatc]

@arschficken What google server did you have blocked? I have half a dozen and I'd rather not test them all

[arschficken]

@nate2014jatc Just www.youtube.com. Good luck!