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 <[email protected]> wrote: > I looked at `dig eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov +trace` and at `strace -f dig > eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov +trace` - it looks to me like NIH's nameservers > are not willing to serve labs? > > > On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 at 05:59, Konrad Koehler via Cloud < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> The following tool has been running without problem for years: >> >> https://tools.wmflabs.org/citation-template-filling/cgi-bin/index.cgi >> >> Recently the tool has started generating the following error message: >> >> Can't call method "findnodes" on an undefined value at >> /data/project/citation-template-filling/perl/ActivePerl-5.26/site/lib/WWW/Search/PubMedLite.pm >> line 117. >> >> PubMedLite.pm in turn makes a request to “' >> https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi” for data. >> For debugging, I queried the entrez server using an equivalent command in >> curl which generated the following error messages: >> >> curl ' >> https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi?db=pubmed&id=12345&retmode=xml >> ' >> >> curl: (6) Could not resolve host: eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov >> >> I also tried replacing “eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov” with its IP address: >> >> curl 'https://130.14.29.110/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi?db=pubmed&id=12345' >> >> curl: (51) SSL: no alternative certificate subject name matches target >> host name '130.14.29.110' >> >> The same curl command runs without problem on my local workstation: >> >> curl ' >> https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi?db=pubmed&id=12345&retmode=xml >> ’ >> >> <!DOCTYPE PubmedArticleSet PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD PubMedArticle, 1st January >> 2019//EN" "https://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/ncbi/pubmed/out/pubmed_190101.dtd";> … >> >> Anyone have an idea how to fix this? Thanks, >> >> Boghog >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia Cloud Services mailing list >> [email protected] (formerly [email protected]) >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia Cloud Services mailing list > [email protected] (formerly [email protected]) > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
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