On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 18:52 +0000, sebb wrote: > On 14 January 2011 18:32, Moore, Jonathan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Re: bogus.example.com. I agree this isn't perfect, although I think the > > likelihood of this hostname appearing is low, given that example.com is > > reserved and run by IANA. Perhaps add a comment or unit test failure > > message to that effect (I.e. "If I break, please check whether > > bogus.example.com has become DNS-resolvable before other debugging > > efforts."). This is likely a better bang-for-the-buck solution than trying > > to debug the vagaries of DNS resolution of completely invalid TLDs on > > various OS (especially the one the CI server runs on). > > What do you mean by completely invalid TLDs? > > The TLD ".invalid" is not invalid in the sense that it is not > syntactically correct. > > And choosing a subdomain of a valid domain will not work with DNS > providers such as OpenDNS. > > Note that example.com is defined as reserved by > http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2606.html, which also defines ".invalid" > as a TLD. > > > Thoughts? > >
Folks I tweaked the test case to not require a real DNS lookup call. Can we all move on now? Oleg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
