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I'm new to python and I'm trying to get a twitter client running on a new ma=
chine but it keeps on failing. I tracked the problem down to an issue openin=
g URLs and wrote this little test case:

import urllib2
url =3D 'http://www.google.com/'
opener =3D urllib2.build_opener()
url_data =3D opener.open(url).read
url_data


When I run that on a dev machine it works fine, but when it's on one of our =
servers it crashes:

>>> import urllib2
>>> url =3D 'http://www.google.com/'
>>> opener =3D urllib2.build_opener()
>>> url_data =3D opener.open(url).read
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 391, in open
    response =3D self._open(req, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 369, in _call_chain
    result =3D func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1173, in http_open
    return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1148, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)
urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno -2] Name or service not known>


Our servers have the same version of python and we're running the same OS (F=
edora 14). Can anyone think of what might be causing this problem, or why it=
 works on most (but not all) machines?

Thanks