Why do you think HostnameLookups is involved? HostnameLookups determines whether Apache tries to get the domain name associated with an IP address for logging purposes (etc). The error message indicates the inability to do the opposite. It sounds like a dns lookup failure. 

>perl -MLWP::Simple -e "getprint 'http://bad.domain.com/'"
500 Can't connect to bad.domain.com:80 (Bad hostname 'bad.domain.com')
+ <URL:http://bad.domain.com/>

[download]

Are you able to resolve news.google.com from your server? Are you sure it's spelled properly? (Try retyping it from scratch.) Are you sure there's no extra spaces or linefeeds? (Try printing the length of the uri.)

In reply to Re: hostnamelookups in apache? by ikegami
in thread hostnamelookups in apache? by Anonymous Monk

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.