diff --git a/ia-cdx-search b/ia-cdx-search
index 27f2543..7cea1c1 100755
--- a/ia-cdx-search
+++ b/ia-cdx-search
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import http.client
 import json
 import re
 import shlex
+import socket
 import sys
 import time
 
@@ -35,7 +36,8 @@ def fetch(url, tries, connection):
 			print(f'Read {len(data)} bytes from {url}', file = sys.stderr)
 			o = json.loads(data)
 			break
-		except (RuntimeError, TimeoutError, http.client.HTTPException, json.JSONDecodeError) as e:
+		except (RuntimeError, TimeoutError, socket.timeout, http.client.HTTPException, json.JSONDecodeError) as e:
+			# socket.timeout is an alias of TimeoutError from Python 3.10 but still needs to be caught explicitly for older versions
 			print(f'Error retrieving {url}: {type(e).__module__}.{type(e).__name__} {e!s}', file = sys.stderr)
 			connection.close()
 			connection = make_connection()