[Bioperl-l] Eutilities not responding

[Warren Gallin]

Hi,

	My scripts, which were working last night are now failing with a time-out message as follows:

------------- EXCEPTION: Bio::Root::Exception -------------
MSG: Response Error
Status read failed: Operation timed out
STACK: Error::throw
STACK: Bio::Root::Root::throw /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.3//Bio/Root/Root.pm:472
STACK: Bio::DB::GenericWebAgent::get_Response /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.3//Bio/DB/GenericWebAgent.pm:214
STACK: Bio::DB::EUtilities::get_Response /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.3//Bio/DB/EUtilities.pm:262
STACK: Bio::DB::EUtilities::get_Parser /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.3//Bio/DB/EUtilities.pm:345
STACK: Bio::DB::EUtilities::next_History /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.3//Bio/DB/EUtilities.pm:658
STACK: NCBI_Retrival::eutilities_getdata NCBI_Retrival.pm:76
STACK: Main_Check_Create.pl:135
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When I try to ping eutils.wip.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov all the packets are lost, no returns whatsoever.

Can anyone else reproduce this?  I can not tell if it is something local with me or something happening on the NCBI side of things.

Thanks,

Warren Gallin