[Python-Dev] mail.python.org down?

[Guido van Rossum]

> >>> urllib.urlopen("http://mail.python.org")
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "c:\python20\lib\urllib.py", line 61, in urlopen
>     return _urlopener.open(url)
>   File "c:\python20\lib\urllib.py", line 166, in open
>     return getattr(self, name)(url)
>   File "c:\python20\lib\urllib.py", line 273, in open_http
>     h.putrequest('GET', selector)
>   File "c:\python20\lib\httplib.py", line 425, in putrequest
>     self.send(str)
>   File "c:\python20\lib\httplib.py", line 367, in send
>     self.connect()
>   File "c:\python20\lib\httplib.py", line 351, in connect
>     self.sock.connect((self.host, self.port))
>   File "<string>", line 1, in connect
> IOError: [Errno socket error] (10061, 'Connection refused')

Beats me.  Indeed it is down.  I've notified the folks at DC
responsible for the site.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)