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 e: [log in to unmask] t: 404 413 2771 My Calendar ________________________________________ 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 To: [log in to unmask] 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 -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 http://www.tourolib.org/ Access Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]