Ligmail bug?

[Steve Holden]

No.23 wrote:
[way too much, ending with]
>    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 1076, in do_open
>      raise URLError(err)
>  urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error (-3, 'temporary failure in name resolution')>
> 
> 
> other information:
> Shell:~ >: uname -a
> OpenBSD ob41.org 4.1 ob41#0 i386
> Shell:~ >: python
> Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Mar  8 2007, 20:46:47)
> [GCC 3.3.5 (propolice)] on openbsd4
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> import libgmail
>>>> print libgmail.Version
> 0.1.6
> 
> 
So why does a temporary failure in name resolution seem like a library 
bug? This is just the library reporting back an error from the network 
or transport layer.

Is the error repeatable? How many times over what period of time have 
you experienced it?

regards
  Steve
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