Occasionally, data transfer requests fail due an unknown host error encountered by the Bestman client programs. In this case, the request is still in progress and often ultimately succeeds. Perhaps a request should not be immediately failed in this case and several retries may yield the correct status. It is unclear why this error occurs tho it appears to be network related.

Basic app logging error output follows:

010-01-06 04:03:37,457 eske.service.workspace.impl.spring.SystemExecStorageResourceControl [ERROR]: command: /usr/local/bestman/bin/srm-req-summary -serviceurl srm://vetswebdev.ucar.edu:49582/srm/v2/server -requesttoken srm:36_GET_830215030
2010-01-06 04:03:37,457 eske.service.workspace.impl.spring.SystemExecStorageResourceControl [ERROR]: output: srm-req-summary 2.2.1.3.2 Thu Oct 15 13:55:22 PDT 2009
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SRM-CLIENT: Connecting to serviceurl httpg://vetswebdev.ucar.edu:49582/srm/v2/server

SRM-REQUEST: Wed Jan 06 04:02:22 MST 2010 Calling SrmRequestSummary
SRM-REQUEST: Exception ; nested exception is:
        java.net.UnknownHostException: vetswebdev.ucar.edu

SRM-CLIENT: Exception from server=; nested exception is:
        java.net.UnknownHostException: vetswebdev.ucar.edu