Well spotted TC! I guess I won't worry about those particular tests for now.

Thanks!
Andy

On Monday, 11 November 2013 23:29:06 UTC, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Andy C <[email protected]<javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > Thanks for the suggestion. 
> > 
> > I do have a resolver configured, if I switch the asterisks with a valid 
> host 
> > name, then I get an IP address (also, I am posting this message from 
> that 
> > machine. Without a resolver I wouldn't be getting too far...) 
> > 
> > Those two tests create a host name consisting of 256 asterisks. Is it 
> > possible those tests are relying on the behaviour of a particular libc 
> > version/DNS lookup system for a particular failure case? 
>
> No, your libc implementation is just buggy.  ;-) 
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc/+bug/1154599 
>
> Looks like it was only fixed in Ubuntu Saucy, so you'd need to wait 
> for/install a pre-release version of Linux Mint 16 for the fix.  :-/ 
>
> -T.C. 
>

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