I got this error every time I use appcfg doing updating, dowloading, ... I found some other threads with this problem and the reason was related to the use of a proxy, but I'm not under a proxy.
~/google_appengine/appcfg.py --noisy --email=giurr...@gmail.com update myapplication Application: myapplication; version: 1. Host: appengine.google.com 2011-03-22 21:04:30,530 DEBUG appengine_rpc.py:443 Could not load authentication cookies; LoadError: '/home/ruggero/.appcfg_cookies' does not look like a Netscape format cookies file 2011-03-22 21:04:30,530 INFO appengine_rpc.py:153 Server: appengine.google.com 2011-03-22 21:04:30,532 INFO appcfg.py:413 Checking for updates to the SDK. 2011-03-22 21:04:30,533 DEBUG appengine_rpc.py:345 Sending HTTPS request: POST /api/updatecheck?release=1.4.2×tamp=1294960686&api_versions=%5B%271%27%5D HTTPS/1.1 Host: appengine.google.com X-appcfg-api-version: 1 Content-type: application/octet-stream User-agent: appcfg_py/1.4.2 Linux/2.6.35.11-83.fc14.x86_64 Python/2.7.0.final.0 2011-03-22 21:04:30,534 DEBUG __init__.py:81 Creating preset proxy https conn: appengine.google.com 2011-03-22 21:04:35,633 INFO appcfg.py:422 Update check failed: <urlopen error [Errno -5] No address associated with hostname> 2011-03-22 21:04:35,634 INFO appcfg.py:1761 Reading app configuration. Beginning update of app: myapplication, version: 1 Scanning files on local disk. 2011-03-22 21:04:35,637 INFO appcfg.py:1779 Processing file 'app.yaml' 2011-03-22 21:04:35,638 INFO appcfg.py:1868 Ignoring file 'index.html~': File matches ignore regex. 2011-03-22 21:04:35,638 INFO appcfg.py:1868 Ignoring file 'my_model.pyc': File matches ignore regex. 2011-03-22 21:04:35,639 INFO appcfg.py:1779 Processing file 'hello.py' 2011-03-22 21:04:35,639 INFO appcfg.py:1868 Ignoring file 'contacts.html~': File matches ignore regex. 2011-03-22 21:04:35,640 INFO appcfg.py:1779 Processing file 'index.html' 2011-03-22 21:04:35,640 INFO appcfg.py:1868 Ignoring file 'my_model.py~': File matches ignore regex. 2011-03-22 21:04:35,640 INFO appcfg.py:1868 Ignoring file 'hello.py~': File matches ignore regex. 2011-03-22 21:04:35,641 INFO appcfg.py:1868 Ignoring file 'app.yaml~': File matches ignore regex. 2011-03-22 21:04:35,641 INFO appcfg.py:1779 Processing file 'index.yaml' 2011-03-22 21:04:35,642 INFO appcfg.py:1779 Processing file 'contacts.html' 2011-03-22 21:04:35,642 INFO appcfg.py:1779 Processing file 'my_model.py' 2011-03-22 21:04:35,643 INFO appcfg.py:1779 Processing file 'stylesheets/main.css' Initiating update of app: myapplication, version: 1 2011-03-22 21:04:35,662 INFO appcfg.py:1502 Send: /api/appversion/create, params={'version': '1', 'app_id': 'myapplication'} 2011-03-22 21:04:35,667 DEBUG appengine_rpc.py:345 Sending HTTPS request: POST /api/appversion/create?version=1&app_id=myapplication HTTPS/1.1 Host: appengine.google.com X-appcfg-api-version: 1 Content-type: application/octet-stream User-agent: appcfg_py/1.4.2 Linux/2.6.35.11-83.fc14.x86_64 Python/2.7.0.final.0 admin_console: pages: - name: Datastore Admin url: /_ah/datastore_admin/ api_version: '1' application: myapplication builtins: - datastore_admin: 'on' - default: 'on' derived_file_type: - python_precompiled handlers: - login: admin script: $PYTHON_LIB/google/appengine/ext/datastore_admin/main.py secure: optional url: /_ah/datastore_admin.* - login: admin script: $PYTHON_LIB/google/appengine/ext/mapreduce/main.py secure: optional url: /_ah/mapreduce.* - secure: optional static_dir: stylesheets url: /stylesheets - script: hello.py secure: optional url: /.* runtime: python version: '1' 2011-03-22 21:04:35,668 DEBUG __init__.py:81 Creating preset proxy https conn: appengine.google.com 2011-03-22 21:04:40,780 ERROR appcfg.py:1840 An unexpected error occurred. Aborting. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/ruggero/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/appcfg.py", line 1795, in DoUpload missing_files = self.Begin() File "/home/ruggero/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/appcfg.py", line 1546, in Begin self.Send('/api/appversion/create', payload=self.config.ToYAML()) File "/home/ruggero/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/appcfg.py", line 1503, in Send return self.rpcserver.Send(url, payload=payload, **self.params) File "/home/ruggero/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/appengine_rpc.py", line 346, in Send f = self.opener.open(req) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 391, in open response = self._open(req, data) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _open '_open', req) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 369, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1181, in https_open return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPSConnection, req) File "/home/ruggero/google_appengine/lib/fancy_urllib/fancy_urllib/__init__.py", line 367, in do_open raise url_error URLError: <urlopen error [Errno -5] No address associated with hostname> Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/ruggero/google_appengine/appcfg.py", line 71, in <module> run_file(__file__, globals()) File "/home/ruggero/google_appengine/appcfg.py", line 67, in run_file execfile(script_path, globals_) File "/home/ruggero/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/appcfg.py", line 3134, in <module> main(sys.argv) File "/home/ruggero/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/appcfg.py", line 3125, in main result = AppCfgApp(argv).Run() File "/home/ruggero/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/appcfg.py", line 2039, in Run self.action(self) File "/home/ruggero/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/appcfg.py", line 2978, in __call__ return method() File "/home/ruggero/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/appcfg.py", line 2398, in Update self.UpdateVersion(rpcserver, basepath, appyaml) File "/home/ruggero/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/appcfg.py", line 2387, in UpdateVersion lambda path: open(os.path.join(basepath, path), 'rb')) File "/home/ruggero/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/appcfg.py", line 1795, in DoUpload missing_files = self.Begin() File "/home/ruggero/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/appcfg.py", line 1546, in Begin self.Send('/api/appversion/create', payload=self.config.ToYAML()) File "/home/ruggero/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/appcfg.py", line 1503, in Send return self.rpcserver.Send(url, payload=payload, **self.params) File "/home/ruggero/google_appengine/google/appengine/tools/appengine_rpc.py", line 346, in Send f = self.opener.open(req) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 391, in open response = self._open(req, data) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _open '_open', req) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 369, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1181, in https_open return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPSConnection, req) File "/home/ruggero/google_appengine/lib/fancy_urllib/fancy_urllib/__init__.py", line 367, in do_open raise url_error urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno -5] No address associated with hostname> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. 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