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| author | Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> | 2021-10-20 15:08:57 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-10-20 15:08:57 (GMT) |
| commit | 6ef4507c74106884e6c8847f08d004511c4f1197 (patch) | |
| tree | b4766d8d8fb1af0b1294c0092842d8a0772b67ee /Lib/test/test_socket.py | |
| parent | 8863a0fcc5f04ab7c3428e713917831f9b1deb18 (diff) | |
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Add a comment about how to fix bogus test_host_resolution_bad_address failures (#29085)
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_socket.py b/Lib/test/test_socket.py index eeb8e8c..394d294 100755 --- a/Lib/test/test_socket.py +++ b/Lib/test/test_socket.py @@ -1017,8 +1017,10 @@ class GeneralModuleTests(unittest.TestCase): def test_host_resolution_bad_address(self): # These are all malformed IP addresses and expected not to resolve to - # any result. But some ISPs, e.g. AWS, may successfully resolve these - # IPs. + # any result. But some ISPs, e.g. AWS and AT&T, may successfully + # resolve these IPs. In particular, AT&T's DNS Error Assist service + # will break this test. See https://bugs.python.org/issue42092 for a + # workaround. explanation = ( "resolving an invalid IP address did not raise OSError; " "can be caused by a broken DNS server" |