For me the issue was that the maven sonar plugin was using proxy servers defined in the maven settings.xml. I was trying to access the sonarque on another (not localhost alias) and so it was trying to use the proxy server to access it. Just added my alias to nonProxyHosts in settings.xml and it is working now. I did not face this issue in maven sonar plugin 3.2, only after i upgraded it.
<proxy>
<id>proxy_id</id>
<active>true</active>
<protocol>http</protocol>
<host>your-proxy-host/host>
<port>your-proxy-host</port>
<nonProxyHosts>localhost|127.0.*|other-non-proxy-hosts</nonProxyHosts>
</proxy>enter code here