From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 42535@debbugs.gnu.org, Philipp <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#42535: 28.0.50; macOS test failure: echo-server-with-dns
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2020 17:14:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m27due8mv7.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r1smmp3d.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 04 Aug 2020 17:02:14 +0200")
>>>>> On Tue, 04 Aug 2020 17:02:14 +0200, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> said:
Lars> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
>> Then either we need to accept that this test can fail on some systems,
>> or we risk calling the wrath of <insert large internet company> down
>> upon us by putting one of their public servers in the test. Or we just
>> use www.gnu.org
Lars> We can't use anything external -- that'd fail a lot more than using
Lars> (system-name).
Lars> But we should just disable this test if (system-name) doesn't resolve.
Lars> That should be easy enough to check for.
Lars> (network-lookup-address-info (system-name))
Lars> => ([127 0 1 1 0])
Lars> So reasonable values here would be 127 as the first octet on ipv4...
Why restrict yourself to IPv4?
(network-lookup-address-info (system-name))
=> ([0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0] [127 0 0 1 0])
Note that strictly speaking this doesnʼt test DNS, since in my case
itʼs just looking in /etc/hosts, but it does test the resolver.
Robert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-04 15:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-25 18:39 bug#42535: 28.0.50; macOS test failure: echo-server-with-dns Philipp
2020-08-03 10:22 ` Robert Pluim
2020-08-04 14:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-04 14:32 ` Robert Pluim
2020-08-04 14:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-04 14:52 ` Robert Pluim
2020-08-04 15:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-04 15:14 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2020-08-04 15:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-04 15:25 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-08-04 15:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-04 15:34 ` Robert Pluim
2020-08-04 16:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-04 16:20 ` Robert Pluim
2020-08-04 16:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-04 15:32 ` Robert Pluim
2020-08-04 14:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-04 15:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-04 16:08 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-08-04 16:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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