dput crashed with gaierror in create_connection(): [Errno -2] Name or service not known

[Nick Moffitt]

Uploading to debexpo (via http to mentors.debian.net):
  Uploading pbs_0.98-1.dsc: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/dput", line 944, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/dput", line 907, in main
    files_to_upload, debug, 0, progress=progress)
  File "/usr/share/dput/http.py", line 103, in upload
    conn.endheaders()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 954, in endheaders
    self._send_output(message_body)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 814, in _send_output
    self.send(msg)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 776, in send
    self.connect()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 757, in connect
    self.timeout, self.source_address)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 553, in create_connection
    for res in getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, SOCK_STREAM):
socket.gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known

Running it a second time worked fine. This isn't the first time this has happened, and I suspect it has to do with how Precise changed my unbound setup to proxy via some dnsmasq noise I never wanted.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: dput 0.9.6.2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.27-generic 3.2.6
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.93-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Mon Feb 27 13:00:18 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/dput
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/dput -l debexpo ../pbs_0.98-1_source.changes
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LC_COLLATE=C
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/dput', '-l', 'debexpo', '../pbs_0.98-1_source.changes']
SourcePackage: dput
Title: dput crashed with gaierror in create_connection(): [Errno -2] Name or service not known
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-22 (5 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare staff

[Nick Moffitt (nick-moffitt)]

This just happened again.