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 Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorprofile.org/pkr1 skype: thomaskrichel