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Hello Erin,

The only issue we have at the moment with the server is that we need to install some tools on it and it doesn't seem capable of resolving urls.

Specifically, we are trying to install s3fs (http://code.google.com/p/s3fs/). Homebrew is already installed on that server and we used it successfully in the past for installing other libraries we needed, so the easiest way of installing s3fs is:

brew install s3fs

Which will attempt to install s3fs and all its dependencies. At this point the installation will fail because ftp.gnu.org cannot be resolved (neither its mirrors can).

I'm copying below some of the things we tried to diagnose this issue along with the output we received, just to give you some additional context:

bernardherrmann:~ Scorerev$ host ftp.gnu.org
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

bernardherrmann:~ Scorerev$ host ftp.gnu.org 8.8.8.8
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

bernardherrmann:~ Scorerev$ ping -c 5 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
ping: sendto: No route to host
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
ping: sendto: No route to host
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2
ping: sendto: No route to host
Request timeout for icmp_seq 3

--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss


Also, traceroute 8.8.8.8 always returned "No route to host".


We need this tool to continue uploading the tracks to S3, so any feedback you can give us that helps resolving this problem would be more than welcome.

If you need more input from us, don't hesitate contacting me or Leandro.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Matías