From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: bug#27039: (tests guix-download) fails when DNS is bogus Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 23:03:13 +0200 Message-ID: <87shjv70by.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20170523162431.GB15379@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53282) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dDGyN-0000Xj-IE for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 23 May 2017 17:04:08 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dDGyI-00036E-IB for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 23 May 2017 17:04:07 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:60715) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dDGyI-000369-Eq for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 23 May 2017 17:04:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dDGyI-00046A-7K for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 23 May 2017 17:04:02 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20170523162431.GB15379@jasmine> (Leo Famulari's message of "Tue, 23 May 2017 12:24:31 -0400") List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: Leo Famulari Cc: 27039@debbugs.gnu.org Leo Famulari 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 =E2=80=9Cwontfix=E2=80=9D. :-) > Does anyone know if there is some domain that is designed to fail as a > "standard", as is intended to be used for examples > of good domains? There=E2=80=99s an RFC defining example.org et al. These domain names are guaranteed to exist, so we=E2=80=99d be testing something different; also, I don=E2=80=99t know if the RFC defines pages guaranteed to be 404, for insta= nce. Ludo=E2=80=99.