diff --git a/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc_net.py b/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc_net.py
index f6ebbf01928..a850ae0206f 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc_net.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc_net.py
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@
 
 class CurrentTimeTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
-    def test_current_time(self):
+    # XXX time.xmlrpc.com seems broken which is why this is disabled
+    def Xtest_current_time(self):
         # Get the current time from xmlrpc.com.  This code exercises
         # the minimal HTTP functionality in xmlrpclib.
         server = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy("http://time.xmlrpc.com/RPC2")