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| author | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2013-08-21 22:39:46 (GMT) |
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| committer | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2013-08-21 22:39:46 (GMT) |
| commit | 1e440cf5a267ce1787aa048525d45eb56fc06135 (patch) | |
| tree | 4ffa3bf47f07f129bf502d6c1cc081190f642abe /Lib/test/support | |
| parent | 9e6b97502f3a0c5f7d24e0b7f05dc9b41b0d0b85 (diff) | |
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Issue #18792: Use "127.0.0.1" or "::1" instead of "localhost" as much as possible, since "localhost" goes through a DNS lookup under recent Windows versions.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/test/support/__init__.py | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/support/__init__.py b/Lib/test/support/__init__.py index 0b3bd68..1c6ee03 100644 --- a/Lib/test/support/__init__.py +++ b/Lib/test/support/__init__.py @@ -479,7 +479,11 @@ def requires_mac_ver(*min_version): return decorator -HOST = 'localhost' +# Don't use "localhost", since resolving it uses the DNS under recent +# Windows versions (see issue #18792). +HOST = "127.0.0.1" +HOSTv6 = "::1" + def find_unused_port(family=socket.AF_INET, socktype=socket.SOCK_STREAM): """Returns an unused port that should be suitable for binding. This is |