Re: [Cloud] problems resolving external host

Thanks for your replies. I contacted the NIH to register the citation-template-filling tool and my e-mail address and added both as parameters to the query url (i.e., “&email=my@email“ and “&tool=ciation-filling-tool") to the PubMedLite.pm module that citation-template-filling tool calls. They also assured me that “tools.wmflabs.org” has not been blocked from accessing the NIH site. I have done a few more tests: curl ' https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi?db=pubmed&id=… ' curl: (6) Could not resolve host: eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov does not work on the tool server, but does work on my local workstation. The following curl -k ' https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi?db=pubmed&id=… ' curl: (6) Could not resolve host: eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov also does not work. But curl -k ' https://130.14.29.110/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi?db=pubmed&id=12345' works. I am not sure what to do next. Is the problem on the “tools.wmflabs.org” or “eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov” side? Also what precisely is the problem, so that I can accurately describe the issue to server administrators? Thanks, Boghog On Jun 14, 2019, at 11:07 PM, Magnus Manske via Cloud < cloud(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: FWIW, I am running a service that queries eutils. They have a rate limitation, but I do stay under that, AFAICT. Maybe multiple bots from the same host, together, triggered a rate limiting mechanism? On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 5:56 PM Alex Monk &lt;krenair(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikimedia Cloud Services mailing list Cloud(a)lists.wikimedia.org (formerly labs-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud