Error authenticating in OpenShift 4.x on AWS due to dial tcp i/o timeout

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Issue

Authentication is failing in OpenShift 4.x due to the following error in the oauth-openshift Pods in the openshift-authentication project:

... login.go:171] Error authenticating "user" with provider "basicidp": Get https://ec2-xx-xx-xx-xx.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/basic/login.cgi: dial tcp xx.xx.xx.xx:443: i/o timeout

Environment

  • OpenShift Container Platform 4.x

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