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

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2020 16:39:02 +0200

Robert Pluim <[email-masked]> writes:

> localhost? But the next test already checks that. Is anyone still
> running any public echo servers?

Isn't localhost hard-coded to 127.0.0.1/::1 and doesn't use the resolver
at all?

> If what you really want to test is "does DNS work", then
> src/process-tests.el already does that with 'network-lookup-address-info',
> which shares the actual lookup code with 'make-network-process'.

No, I think that code really wants to check whether we can make a
network process work with DNS, because that's a different code path than
just network-lookup-address-info + make-network-process.

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