Description of problem: When RHN is down, pup should display message saying that. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pirut-1.3.28-13.el5.noarch How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. # iptables -A OUTPUT -d 209.132.177.100 -j REJECT # rhn.redhat.com # iptables -A OUTPUT -d 209.132.177.110 -j REJECT # xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com or # echo '127.0.0.1 rhn.redhat.com xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com' >> /etc/hosts 2. # pup Actual results: RHN registration agent lunched Expected results: It should instead display the outage message. Additional info: I'm not sure if steps we used to simulate RHN outage are correct. It behaves same with older pirut-1.2.10-1.el5.noarch => no regression. This was discovered by psklenar.