LLM Course Chapter 11 Exam: Connection error to api-inference.huggingface.co

A user reported that the Chapter 11 Code Quiz in the LLM Course fails on submission with a MaxRetryError against api-inference.huggingface.co, where the endpoint /models/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct/v1/chat/completions could not be reached due to a NameResolutionError (Errno -5, no address associated with hostname). The user asked whether the Hugging Face inference API hostname resolution failure is a known temporary issue or something they can fix locally.

Hi everyone, I am experiencing an issue while trying to complete the Code Quiz in Chapter 11 of the LLM Course. When submitting, the automated check fails with a network resolution error. Here is the exact error I am receiving: MaxRetryError ‘HTTPSConnectionPool host=\‘ api-inference.huggingface.co http://api-inference.huggingface.co \’, port=443 : Max retries exceeded with url: /models/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct/v1/chat/completions Caused by NameResolutionError “: Failed to resolve \‘ api-inference.huggingface.co http://api-inference.huggingface.co \’ Errno -5 No address associated with hostname ” ’ It looks like the platform is currently unable to resolve the Hugging Face inference API hostname or the Qwen model endpoint is unavailable. Is this a known temporary issue, or is there something I can do to fix it? Thank you