GNU bug report logs - #42535
28.0.50; macOS test failure: echo-server-with-dns

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Reported by: Philipp <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2020 18:40:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Found in version 28.0.50

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 42535 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Philipp <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>, Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Subject: bug#42535: 28.0.50; macOS test failure: echo-server-with-dns
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2020 18:12:51 +0200

Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com> 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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(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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