Weird socketerror

[veeectorm]

Strangely enough im getting this error. HOWEVER, it does delete like 75 snapshots before exploding into a glittery error:

/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:763:in `initialize': getaddrinfo: Name or service not known (SocketError)
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:763:in `open'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:763:in `block in connect'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/timeout.rb:55:in `timeout'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/timeout.rb:100:in `timeout'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:763:in `connect'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:756:in `do_start'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:745:in `start'
        from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/amazon-ec2-0.9.17/lib/AWS.rb:274:in `make_request'
        from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/amazon-ec2-0.9.17/lib/AWS.rb:324:in `response_generator'
        from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/amazon-ec2-0.9.17/lib/AWS/EC2/snapshots.rb:48:in `delete_snapshot'
        from ./ec2-purge-snapshots.rb:65:in `block in purge_snapshots'
        from ./ec2-purge-snapshots.rb:19:in `each'
        from ./ec2-purge-snapshots.rb:19:in `purge_snapshots'
        from ./ec2-purge-snapshots.rb:217:in `<main>'