diff --git a/rollbar.php b/rollbar.php
index f7d7de05..b6bf176d 100644
--- a/rollbar.php
+++ b/rollbar.php
@@ -780,6 +780,7 @@ protected function make_api_call($action, $access_token, $post_data) {
         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $this->timeout);
         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('X-Rollbar-Access-Token: ' . $access_token));
+        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_IPRESOLVE, CURL_IPRESOLVE_V4 );
         $result = curl_exec($ch);
         $status_code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
         curl_close($ch);