Is the UCLA metabase database down?

After imputting:
import pygr
from pygr import worldbase
dir(worldbase)

I see:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pygr-0.8.2-py2.7-win32.egg\pygr\metabase.py", line 1085, in update
    self, **mdbArgs)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pygr-0.8.2-py2.7-win32.egg\pygr\metabase.py", line 915, in __init__
    storage = XMLRPCMetabase(dbpath, self, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pygr-0.8.2-py2.7-win32.egg\pygr\metabase.py", line 335, in __init__
    self.server = get_connection(url, 'index')
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pygr-0.8.2-py2.7-win32.egg\pygr\coordinator.py", line 94, in __call__
    return s[name] # GET THE REQUESTED OBJECT PROXY FROM THE SERVER
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pygr-0.8.2-py2.7-win32.egg\pygr\coordinator.py", line 75, in __getitem__
    methodDict = self.server.objectInfo(name)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 1224, in __call__
    return self.__send(self.__name, args)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 1575, in __request
    verbose=self.__verbose
  File "C:\Python27\lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 1264, in request
    return self.single_request(host, handler, request_body, verbose)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 1294, in single_request
    response = h.getresponse(buffering=True)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\httplib.py", line 1027, in getresponse
    response.begin()
error: [Errno 10060] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did
 not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond

WARNING: error accessing metabase http://biodb2.bioinformatics.ucla.edu:5000.  
Continuing...
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Original issue reported on code.google.com by els...@gmail.com on 24 Mar 2012 at 4:22
graehl / pygr

Is the UCLA metabase database down? #136
