ERROR: (gcloud.projects.describe) Unable to find the server at accounts.google.com

Issue running command [gcloud projects describe].
Long wait followed by 
ERROR: (gcloud.projects.describe) Unable to find the server at 
accounts.google.com

What steps will reproduce the problem?
Quite frequent but very hard to repro
I run a Docker container many times every day that upon startup runs gcloud 
projects describe for the project set in config.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Running Google Cloud Datalab as a local Docker container starts initialization 
with a long list of gcloud commands including gcloud projects describe. This 
command seems to block and then eventually fail instead of providing project 
information. This does NOT reliably happen - in fact it works about 80% of the 
time.
Also see similar external customer issue at: 
https://code.google.com/p/google-cloud-sdk/issues/detail?id=179

Please provide any additional information below.
Totally intermittent but has happened ~10 times in the last week or so - from 
right before Next conference. Originally I thought it may have been due to an 
older version of gcloud so updated it to the latest as of March 22, 2016 
(version 102.0.0) but the issue is back again. So likely not version related.

Trace:
googlecloudsdk/gcloud_main.py:169
 gcloud_cli.Execute()
googlecloudsdk/calliope/cli.py:654
 result = args.cmd_fu...
googlecloudsdk/calliope/backend.py:1376
 resources = command_...
googlecloudsdk/api_projects/util.py:127
 return func(*args, *...
surface/projects/describe.py:57
 return projects.proj...
googlecloudsdk/third_party/apis/cloudresourcemanager/v1beta1/cloudresourcemanage
r_v1beta1_client.py:399
 config, request, glo...
googlecloudsdk/third_party/apitools/base/py/base_api.py:706
 http, http_request, ...
googlecloudsdk/third_party/apitools/base/py/http_wrapper.py:340
 check_response_func=...
googlecloudsdk/third_party/apitools/base/py/http_wrapper.py:389
 redirections=redirec...
googlecloudsdk/core/cli.py:326
 return orig_request(...
third_party/oauth2client/client.py:569
 redirections, connec...
googlecloudsdk/core/cli.py:294
 return orig_request(...
third_party/httplib2/__init__.py:1610
 (response, content) ...
third_party/httplib2/__init__.py:1352
 (response, content) ...
third_party/httplib2/__init__.py:1278
 raise ServerNotFound...
ServerNotFoundError: Unable to find the server at 
cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com

Installation information:

Google Cloud SDK [102.0.0]

Platform: [Mac OS X, x86_64]
Python Version: [2.7.10 |Anaconda 2.3.0 (x86_64)| (default, May 28 2015, 
17:04:42)  [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5577)]]
Python Location: [/Users/dck/anaconda/bin/python2]
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Original issue reported on code.google.com by d...@google.com on 30 Mar 2016 at 5:12
venf2k / google-cloud-sdk

ERROR: (gcloud.projects.describe) Unable to find the server at accounts.google.com #692
