Roy Tennant writes

> I'm mystified as well, since a curl request from one of my servers
> (not an OCLC one) resolves just fine.

  I get the same result as Yitzchak

krichel@sahure:~$ 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


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