Trying to set up a merge mine p2pool and getting some errors with the final setup - connecting direct to 9171 works fine and generates getauxblock requests.

Error from p2proxy server:
[2014-05-03 01:27:01][client][INFO] Client ( [166.137.120.135] killed: Took too long to initialise
[2014-05-03 01:27:16][client][INFO] Client (9) [166.137.120.135] connected
[2014-05-03 01:27:46][client][INFO] Client (9) [166.137.120.135] disconnected

Error from cudaminer: (kev vertminer also does not work)
[2014-05-02 20:30:42] HTTP request failed: Operation timed out after 30124 milli
seconds with 0 out of -1 bytes received
[2014-05-02 20:30:42] json_rpc_call failed, retry after 15 seconds

Any advice?