Hugging Face Agents Course Quiz — Inference API Connection Error

A Hugging Face Agents Course student reported a connection error when submitting a quiz solution, with the feedback service failing to resolve api-inference.huggingface.co for the Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct model. The error, a MaxRetryError citing a NameResolutionError, suggests a DNS or network issue in the quiz environment. The student asked Hugging Face to check the inference endpoint or feedback service.

Hello Hugging Face team, I’m currently taking the Agents Course, Unit 2 — smolagents, and I’m working on the “Create a Basic Code Agent with Web Search Capability” challenge. When I submit my solution, the quiz gives me this warning: Error generating feedback: MaxRetryError 'HTTPSConnectionPool host=\'api-inference.huggingface.co\', port=443 : Max retries exceeded with url: /models/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct Caused by NameResolutionError: Failed to resolve \'api-inference.huggingface.co\' Errno -5 No address associated with hostname ' The error appears to indicate that the quiz environment cannot resolve or connect to api-inference.huggingface.co . My code is: python from smolagents import CodeAgent, DuckDuckGoSearchTool, HfApiModel agent = CodeAgent tools= DuckDuckGoSearchTool , model=HfApiModel model id="Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct" Could you please check whether the inference endpoint or the quiz feedback service is currently experiencing a DNS/network issue? Thank you