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

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2020 18:12:51 +0200

Robert Pluim <[email-masked]> writes:

> 'network-lookup-address-info' returns nil if it canʼt resolve the
> hostname, and if it happens to return a non-loopback IP, what's wrong
> with trying to connect to it? It will be local anyway.

It's just one more thing that may fail -- somebody may have set
(system-name) to something that does resolve, but isn't the local
machine.  People do all kinds of odd things.

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