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Yitzchak, Have you tried running dig or nslookup on the server from the command line? Maybe your server is using DNS that is broken or has cached a bad record. Michael Della Bitta Senior Applications Developer Information Technology Group The New York Public Library 40 West 20th Street, 5th Floor New York, NY 10011-4211 (212) 621-0609 On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Yitzchak Schaffer <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hello all, > > Mystified. A drupal module on our site makes a call to an OCLC server to get > status of chat service. This has been working fine until this morning. > > I can open a browser and successfully browse the URL of the status service. > But when I use file_get_contents() or php-curl (or command-line curl for > that matter), on the same box, I get a domain lookup error, see below. What > the heck is going on? TIA! > > yitzchas@ubu-dev:/www/websites/drupal/sites/all$ dig www.questionpoint.org > +short > 132.174.11.16 > > yitzchas@ubu-dev:/www/websites/drupal/sites/all$ curl > "http://www.questionpoint.org/crs/servlet/org.oclc.chat.QPWOnlineStatus?library=10253&rid=0" > -m 3 -v > * name lookup timed out > * Couldn't resolve host 'www.questionpoint.org' > * Closing connection #0 > curl: (6) name lookup timed out > > -- > Yitzchak Schaffer > Systems Manager > Touro College Libraries > 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 > http://www.tourolib.org/ > > Access Problems? Contact [log in to unmask] >