bzr crashed branching inx from LP

I suspect this bug is relatd to #198519 ( 'Connection timed out' on lp branch attempt shouldn't result in a crash ), but i'll file it incase:

When attempting to branch a project hosted by LP i recieved the following error:

 bzr branch lp:inx
bzr: ERROR: socket.gaierror: (-2, 'Name or service not known')

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 846, in run_bzr_catch_errors
    return run_bzr(argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 797, in run_bzr
    ret = run(*run_argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 499, in run_argv_aliases
    return self.run(**all_cmd_args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/builtins.py", line 915, in run
    accelerator_tree, br_from = bzrdir.BzrDir.open_tree_or_branch(
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/bzrdir.py", line 789, in open_tree_or_branch
    bzrdir = klass.open(location)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/bzrdir.py", line 666, in open
    t = get_transport(base, possible_transports=possible_transports)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/lazy_import.py", line 125, in __call__
    return obj(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/transport/__init__.py", line 1527, in get_transport
    base = directories.dereference(base)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/directory_service.py", line 52, in dereference
    return service().look_up(name, url)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/launchpad/lp_directory.py", line 60, in look_up
    return self._resolve(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/launchpad/lp_directory.py", line 76, in _resolve
    result = resolve.submit(service)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/launchpad/lp_registration.py", line 182, in submit
    self._authenticated)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/launchpad/lp_registration.py", line 147, in send_request
    result = method(*method_params)
  File "xmlrpclib.py", line 1096, in __call__
    return self.__send(self.__name, args)
  File "xmlrpclib.py", line 1383, in __request
    verbose=self.__verbose
  File "xmlrpclib.py", line 1129, in request
    self.send_content(h, request_body)
  File "xmlrpclib.py", line 1243, in send_content
    connection.endheaders()
  File "httplib.py", line 798, in endheaders
    self._send_output()
  File "httplib.py", line 679, in _send_output
    self.send(msg)
  File "httplib.py", line 646, in send
    self.connect()
  File "httplib.py", line 1072, in connect
    sock.connect((self.host, self.port))
  File "<string>", line 1, in connect
gaierror: (-2, 'Name or service not known')

bzr 1.5 on python 2.4.4 (linux2)
arguments: ['/usr/bin/bzr', 'branch', 'lp:inx']
encoding: 'UTF-8', fsenc: 'UTF-8', lang: 'en_AU.UTF-8'
plugins:
  launchpad /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/launchpad [unknown]
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