AWSIoTMQTTClient.connect() Occasionally hangs forever

[PillarOfSociety]

I am working on an python app that gets stuck somewhere in the MQTT.Connect() Method, but only after a while. it might work 1000 times than hang. I decided to create a simple test by changing basicPubSub.py to do something similar and it still hangs. Here is what i've done to basicPubSub:

Everything above the While loop is the same (except my creds).

while True:
    print "waiting"
    time.sleep(3)

    data = { "xg": 2.5, "xalarm": 3, "linkqdbm": -25} 
    JSONPayload = dumps(data)  #json.dumps

    myAWSIoTMQTTClient.connect() #this will hang eventually and never throw an exception or continue or update the logger
    myAWSIoTMQTTClient.publish("Sensor/", JSONPayload, 0)  #this was orgonally 1; We probably want 1 for final app but I dont think it matters here
    myAWSIoTMQTTClient.disconnect()

Here is what the output looks like... and what I get when I keyboard interrupt the hang. I waited like an hour before doing so.

waiting
2017-04-13 19:30:11,718 - AWSIoTPythonSDK.core.protocol.mqttCore - INFO - Connection type: TLSv1.2 Mutual Authentication
2017-04-13 19:30:12,208 - AWSIoTPythonSDK.core.protocol.mqttCore - DEBUG - Connect result code 0
2017-04-13 19:30:12,211 - AWSIoTPythonSDK.core.protocol.mqttCore - INFO - Connected to AWS IoT.
2017-04-13 19:30:12,211 - AWSIoTPythonSDK.core.protocol.mqttCore - DEBUG - Connect time consumption: 70.0ms.
2017-04-13 19:30:12,212 - AWSIoTPythonSDK.core.protocol.mqttCore - DEBUG - Try to put a publish request 1998 in the TCP stack.
2017-04-13 19:30:12,212 - AWSIoTPythonSDK.core.protocol.mqttCore - DEBUG - Publish request 1998 succeeded.
2017-04-13 19:30:12,213 - AWSIoTPythonSDK.core.protocol.mqttCore - DEBUG - Disconnect result code 0
2017-04-13 19:30:12,223 - AWSIoTPythonSDK.core.protocol.mqttCore - INFO - Disconnected.
2017-04-13 19:30:12,224 - AWSIoTPythonSDK.core.protocol.mqttCore - DEBUG - Disconnect time consumption: 10.0ms.
waiting
2017-04-13 19:30:15,227 - AWSIoTPythonSDK.core.protocol.mqttCore - INFO - Connection type: TLSv1.2 Mutual Authentication



^CTraceback (most recent call last):
  File "TestScripts/basicPubSub.py", line 108, in <module>
    myAWSIoTMQTTClient.connect()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/AWSIoTPythonSDK/MQTTLib.py", line 403, in connect
    return self._mqttCore.connect(keepAliveIntervalSecond)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/AWSIoTPythonSDK/core/protocol/mqttCore.py", line 290, in connect
    self._pahoClient.connect(self._host, self._port, keepAliveInterval)  # Throw exception...
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/AWSIoTPythonSDK/core/protocol/paho/client.py", line 655, in connect
    return self.reconnect()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/AWSIoTPythonSDK/core/protocol/paho/client.py", line 798, in reconnect
    ciphers=self._tls_ciphers)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ssl.py", line 891, in wrap_socket
    ciphers=ciphers)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ssl.py", line 566, in __init__
    self.do_handshake()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ssl.py", line 788, in do_handshake
    self._sslobj.do_handshake()
KeyboardInterrupt

I am using Python 2.7.9, OpenSSL 1.0.1t, and AWSIoTPythonSDK 1.1.1
Any thoughts on how to overcome this?

[PillarOfSociety]

Tried this on a different machine and it seems to work fine. I don't really know what the issue was, but for now i think i'm gonna just stick to working on the other machine and ignore this.