Leo Famulari <[email protected]> skribis: > The guix-download test includes this snippet: > > ------ > # Make sure it fails here. > if guix download http://does.not/exist > then false; else true; fi > ------ > > Unfortunately, many ISPs (such as T-Mobile) return bogus results for > otherwise unclaimed domain names, causing this test to fail.
Yes, this has been reported several times in the past and marked as “wontfix”. :-) > 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? 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’.
