On our production machines running LWP 6.04 and LWP::Protocol::https 6.03 I see a few times a day messages like:
500 Can't connect to dl.dropboxusercontent.com:443 (Bad hostname) Yet, when I try fetching using lwp-request on the same machine the lookup works fine and I can fetch the content. I suspect an issue with our own DNS, but I'm only aware of these lookup failures reported by LWP (we have lots of other non-Perl code that is doing lookups all day long). Anyway, I just wanted to check here to see if anyone else has also seen hostname lookup failures for valid hostnames that might indicate a problem in the Perl libraries. I'll look at adding more debugging -- like running dig or hostname on LWP failures of this type and see if those also fail at the same time. Any other ideas for debugging? Thanks, -- Bill Moseley mose...@hank.org
