On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Uwe Schindler <[email protected]> wrote:

> Can we re-enable Solr tests on Jenkins?
> As a workaround for the blackhole, I would add an unless="freebsd" -like
> check to the Solr's "test" target. We should maybe work on a solution to
> make the blackhole work correctly or make SolrJettyRunner detect the
> blackhole and enable the simple non-NIO connector.
>

I have a few questions about the blackhole, because I want to understand
what the real scope of this issue is.

1. first of all, there is "normal" blackhole, which is where nothing comes
back from a closed TCP port. I don't think its is "special" at all,
actually lots of people have firewalls (on many operating systems), and
this is the kind of behavior you see if you have network outages and so on.
So its scary if things dont work right in this situation.

2. then there is "crazy" blackhole (our apache jenkins server) which
applies this also to the localhost interface: 127.0.0.1... thats just over
the top.

Is the problem specific to testing, or also real code? And does it only
impact #2 (crazy blackholes) or is it a more general problem (#1) ?

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