diff --git a/src/test/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/util/xml/XmlValidatorTest.java b/src/test/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/util/xml/XmlValidatorTest.java
index 44a8f172913..b11d77a0d0a 100644
--- a/src/test/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/util/xml/XmlValidatorTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/util/xml/XmlValidatorTest.java
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
 import org.junit.Assert;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+import org.junit.Ignore;
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
 
@@ -13,6 +14,9 @@ public class XmlValidatorTest {
 
     private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(XmlValidatorTest.class.getCanonicalName());
 
+    //Ignored as this relies on an external resource that has been down occasionally. 
+    //May be a good test for our full vs. everytime test classifications (#4896) -MAD 4.9.1
+    @Ignore
     @Test
     public void testValidateXml() throws IOException, SAXException, ParserConfigurationException {
         assertTrue(XmlValidator.validateXmlSchema("src/test/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/util/xml/sendToDataCite.xml", new URL("http://schema.datacite.org/meta/kernel-3/metadata.xsd")));