It's setting the timeout

I upped it to ten and it still failed, but when I dropped the "-m 3" it does return the same as the browser. 

So it's just real slow, that's all.

Chad Nelson
Web Services Programmer
University Library
Georgia State University

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From: Code for Libraries [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Yitzchak Schaffer [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 3:47 PM
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Subject: [CODE4LIB] Domain lookup madness

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

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Touro College Libraries
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