Issue with downloading Collections. Getting Name Resolution error

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I have a playbook that references a requirements file to download that certain collections are available. When I run the playbook I get an name resolution error however I can still ping galaxy.ansible.com. I have tried increasing the timeout period but I still get the same error. I tested this out in a command prompt and I seem to get the same output as when I run the playbook. This happens with any collection I use. I can’t figure out if there is something wrong with my set up or if there is an issue external to me that is causing this.

Output form Command prompt:

$ ansible-galaxy collection install freeipa.ansible_freeipa
Starting galaxy collection install process
Process install dependency map
Starting collection install process
Downloading https://galaxy.ansible.com/api/v3/plugin/ansible/content/published/collections/artifacts/freeipa-ansible_freeipa-1.17.0.tar.gz to /home/ansi-admin/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-9501m44wn9ls/tmpk3iqxq4g/freeipa-ansible_freeipa-1.17.0-rh5glwpk
[ERROR]: Failed to download collection tar from 'default': <urlopen error [Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution>

Failed to download collection tar from 'default': <urlopen error [Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution>

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<urlopen error [Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution>
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Don’t know if it’s related, but Galaxy was very slow for me today as well.

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The error points to a DNS resolution issue rather than a timeout. Try getent hosts galaxy.ansible.com and curl -v https://galaxy.ansible.com/api/ from the same environment. If DNS fails, check /etc/resolv.conf, DNS settings, proxy, and firewall configuration. Pinging the hostname alone doesn’t guarantee Ansible/Python can resolve it correctly.