# Tally - A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.

**URL:** <https://community.cdata.com/t/tally-a-connection-attempt-failed-because-the-connected-party-did-not-properly-respond-after-a-period-of-time-or-established-connection-failed-because-connected-host-has-failed-to-respond/455>\
**Category:** Data Sources\
**Tags:** article, authentication, tally, connection\
**Created:** [October 12, 2023, 7:11pm UTC](https://community.cdata.com/t/tally-a-connection-attempt-failed-because-the-connected-party-did-not-properly-respond-after-a-period-of-time-or-established-connection-failed-because-connected-host-has-failed-to-respond/455 "2023-10-12T19:11:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![IrdiD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a9adbd/32.png) [@IrdiD](https://community.cdata.com/u/IrdiD)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2023, 7:11pm UTC](https://community.cdata.com/t/tally-a-connection-attempt-failed-because-the-connected-party-did-not-properly-respond-after-a-period-of-time-or-established-connection-failed-because-connected-host-has-failed-to-respond/455/1 "2023-10-12T19:11:54Z")

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When trying to connect to Tally, the following error is displayed instead.

 ![c245b551-d88e-4fac-a832-9a54811d96bd.png](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cdata/original/2X/7/751a484a7cb858597e2fbcb8686bc85c03b13f3e.png)

This error usually means one of two things;&nbsp;  
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One probable cause for this error is the configuration of the server hosting Tally. For security reasons, it may be configured to only allow inbound traffic from a specific IP range or network, and since the connection is being attempted from an outside machine (your PC) connection is not successfully established.&nbsp;  
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Another reason this error shows up is the Tally software being closed.&nbsp;Tally needs to be open and running on the server at the time you are using our Tally&nbsp;Driver to establish a connection.

If this does not resolve the error then please reach out to [support@cdata.com](mailto:support@cdata.com) for further assistance.