Subject: bug#42535: 28.0.50; macOS test failure: echo-server-with-dns

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2020 16:14:40 +0200

Philipp <[email-masked]> writes:

> This is another follow-up to bug#30700, this time about the test
> echo-server-with-dns.

[...]

> In this case, this might be an issue with the macOS firewall: 'make
> check' results in a few prompts whether incoming connections should be
> accepted, and I've declined these prompts.

Is that something we can test for, though?  If you've set up your
machine to not accept network connections from itself, then you'd think
all of the network tests would fail (and should be skipped).

But is there a way to test for that?

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