From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: 27039@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27039: (tests guix-download) fails when DNS is bogus
Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 23:03:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87shjv70by.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170523162431.GB15379@jasmine> (Leo Famulari's message of "Tue, 23 May 2017 12:24:31 -0400")
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:
> The guix-download test includes this snippet:
>
> ------
> # Make sure it fails here.
> if guix download http://does.not/exist
> then false; else true; fi
> ------
>
> Unfortunately, many ISPs (such as T-Mobile) return bogus results for
> otherwise unclaimed domain names, causing this test to fail.
Yes, this has been reported several times in the past and marked as
“wontfix”. :-)
> Does anyone know if there is some domain that is designed to fail as a
> "standard", as <http://example.com> is intended to be used for examples
> of good domains?
There’s an RFC defining example.org et al. These domain names are
guaranteed to exist, so we’d be testing something different; also, I
don’t know if the RFC defines pages guaranteed to be 404, for instance.
Ludo’.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-23 21:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-23 16:24 bug#27039: (tests guix-download) fails when DNS is bogus Leo Famulari
2017-05-23 16:47 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2017-05-23 17:07 ` ng0
2017-05-23 21:03 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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