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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Philipp <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>, 46641@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46641: process-tests assume network connection
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2021 17:21:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lfbhqtmq.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AD91C9CD-69BF-4869-950E-DB3F62AD8C60@gmail.com> (Philipp's message of "Sun, 21 Feb 2021 15:37:27 +0100")

>>>>> On Sun, 21 Feb 2021 15:37:27 +0100, Philipp <p.stephani2@gmail.com> said:

    Philipp> This is pretty common for CI systems.  Accessing the network is a
    Philipp> security risk, and in addition tends to make tests unreproducible.

I can give you the second one, but in what way is eg doing a DNS lookup a
'security risk'? Weʼre not talking about setting up a listening server
on a public IP here.

Robert





  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-21 16:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-19 17:59 bug#46641: process-tests assume network connection Glenn Morris
2021-02-21 11:11 ` Robert Pluim
2021-02-21 13:41   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-21 14:40     ` Philipp
2021-02-21 16:19     ` Robert Pluim
2021-02-21 16:45       ` Robert Pluim
2021-02-21 18:32         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-22 14:49           ` Robert Pluim
2021-02-21 14:37   ` Philipp
2021-02-21 16:21     ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2021-02-21 19:40       ` Philipp

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