(tests guix-download) fails when DNS is bogus

The guix-download test includes this snippet:

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# Make sure it fails here.

if guix download http://does.not/exist

then false; else true; fi

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Unfortunately, many ISPs (such as T-Mobile) return bogus results for

otherwise unclaimed domain names, causing this test to fail.

Does anyone know if there is some domain that is designed to fail as a

"standard", as http://example.com is intended to be used for examples

of good domains?

On May 23, 2017 9:24:31 AM PDT, Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:

Could we simply mock the expected response?

Maxim

On Tue, 23 May 2017 12:24:31 -0400, Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:

http://fail.0

fails to resolve with "ping: bad address 'fail.0'. This was run on an OpenNIC connected computer.

Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:

Yes, this has been reported several times in the past and marked as

“wontfix”. :-)

There’s an RFC defining example.org et al. These domain names are

guaranteed to exist, so we’d be testing something different; also, I

don’t know if the RFC defines pages guaranteed to be 404, for instance.

Ludo’.

tags 27039 wontfix

close 27039