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: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
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 18:20:09 +0200

>>>>> On Tue, 04 Aug 2020 18:12:51 +0200, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> said:

    Lars> 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.

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

Well, you could always check against 'network-interface-list', but
thatʼs probably overkill.

Robert
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