Now you have me wondering/searching where I read that example.com was a good place for pointing tests at, that would serve a reliable response... and what other location, if not this, should be used instead... (I want to test basic things like a real 200 OK or 302 Found from an http GET or POST.)
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 12:17 PM, David Golden <x...@xdg.me> wrote: > I had always understood example.com to be reserved for documentation and > that it should not be relied upon to exist. > > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6761 > > > On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 12:11 PM, Karen Etheridge <p...@froods.org> wrote: > >> > I have been told that access to example.com has been deliberately >> blocked, this is not a misconfiguration. I am not at liberty to say why. >> You may start to find others having problems accessing it. >> >> UGH! This is a legitimate testing site, one we can always count on being >> up and returning a known and stable response. :/ >> >> If your ISP cannot resolve this, may I request that you please set >> NO_NETWORK_TESTING=1 on all affected smokers? This will signal to >> distribution tests that consent is not given to make network connections, >> and relevant tests will be skipped. >> > > > > -- > David Golden <x...@xdg.me> Twitter/IRC: @xdg >
