Error creating DigitalOcean droplet using docker-machine

Not sure if it’s a DigitalOcean problem or docker-machine but I get this error repeatedly while trying to create a droplet on DO

$ docker-machine create --driver digitalocean --digitalocean-access-token=$TOKEN --digitalocean-region=sgp1 --digitalocean-image=ubuntu-14-04-x64 --digitalocean-size "1gb" staging
   Running pre-create checks...
   Creating machine...
   (staging) Creating SSH key...
   (staging) Creating Digital Ocean droplet...
   (staging) Waiting for IP address to be assigned to the Droplet...
   Waiting for machine to be running, this may take a few minutes...
   Detecting operating system of created instance...
   Waiting for SSH to be available...
   Detecting the provisioner...
   Provisioning with ubuntu(upstart)...
   Installing Docker...
   Copying certs to the local machine directory...
   Copying certs to the remote machine...
   Error creating machine: Error running provisioning: Get https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets/17900941: dial tcp: lookup api.digitalocean.com on 127.0.1.1:53: read udp 127.0.0.1:40376->127.0.1.1:53: i/o timeout

I am using following docker packages on Ubuntu 14.04

 $ docker-machine version
   docker-machine version 0.7.0, build a650a40
   
   $ docker version
   Client:
    Version:      1.11.2
    API version:  1.23
    Go version:   go1.5.4
    Git commit:   b9f10c9
    Built:        Wed Jun  1 21:47:50 2016
    OS/Arch:      linux/amd64
   
   Server:
    Version:      1.11.1
    API version:  1.23
    Go version:   go1.5.4
    Git commit:   5604cbe
    Built:        Wed Apr 27 00:34:20 2016
    OS/Arch:      linux/amd64