error connecting to spinnaker.cs.man.ac.uk

[Christian-B]

occasional error on macos test

requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='spinnaker.cs.man.ac.uk', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /spalloc/system/login.html (Caused by NameResolutionError("<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x103029190>: Failed to resolve 'spinnaker.cs.man.ac.uk' ([Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known)"))

[Christian-B]

When fixed do PR SpiNNakerManchester/SupportScripts#76

[Christian-B]

Actually may not be a macos error

on ubuntu I got emporary f
Failed to resolve 'spinnaker.cs.man.ac.uk' ([Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution)"))

[Christian-B]

Also Java reports Assumption failed: spalloc server (spinnaker.cs.man.ac.uk) appears to be down

[Christian-B]

a work around is setting the dns server as in SpiNNakerManchester/JavaSpiNNaker#1170

[Christian-B]

We wonder if this is due to the server not having an IP6 address.

TODO get an IP6 address for this server.