[issue35518] test_timeout uses blackhole.snakebite.net domain which doesn't exist anymore

Change by STINNER Victor : -- resolution: -> out of date stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue35518] test_timeout uses blackhole.snakebite.net domain which doesn't exist anymore

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset 198a0d622a696a4c234aa7866d6c15e38839cc76 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '2.7': bpo-35518: Skip test that relies on a deceased network service. (GH-15349) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/198a0d622a696a4c234aa7866d6c15e38839cc76

[issue35518] test_timeout uses blackhole.snakebite.net domain which doesn't exist anymore

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset b9d88e771238b5098842cad8a6ad624621f3f62e by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.7': bpo-35518: Skip test that relies on a deceased network service. (GH-15349) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b9d88e771238b5098842cad8a6ad624621f3f62e

[issue35518] test_timeout uses blackhole.snakebite.net domain which doesn't exist anymore

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset 44f2c096804e8e3adc09400a59ef9c9ae843f339 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.8': bpo-35518: Skip test that relies on a deceased network service. (GH-15349) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/44f2c096804e8e3adc09400a59ef9c9ae843f339

[issue35518] test_timeout uses blackhole.snakebite.net domain which doesn't exist anymore

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +15065 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/15351 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue35518] test_timeout uses blackhole.snakebite.net domain which doesn't exist anymore

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +15066 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/15352 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue35518] test_timeout uses blackhole.snakebite.net domain which doesn't exist anymore

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +15064 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/15350 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue35518] test_timeout uses blackhole.snakebite.net domain which doesn't exist anymore

Benjamin Peterson added the comment: New changeset 5b95a1507e349da5adae6d2ab57deac3bdd12f15 by Benjamin Peterson (Greg Price) in branch 'master': bpo-35518: Skip test that relies on a deceased network service. (GH-15349)

[issue35518] test_timeout uses blackhole.snakebite.net domain which doesn't exist anymore

Greg Price added the comment: I ran across this test when looking at especially slow files in the test suite: it turns out that not only is this service currently down, but the snakebite.net domain still exists, and as a result the test can end up waiting 20-30s before learning that the

[issue35518] test_timeout uses blackhole.snakebite.net domain which doesn't exist anymore

Change by Greg Price : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +15063 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/15349 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue35518] test_timeout uses blackhole.snakebite.net domain which doesn't exist anymore

Benjamin Peterson added the comment: I think it might be better to rewrite the test to use a local tcp server. At least on Linux, I think trying to connect to a socket with a full accept queue should have equivalent beahvior. You could also be fancier, set up a network namespace, and

[issue35518] test_timeout uses blackhole.snakebite.net domain which doesn't exist anymore

Karthikeyan Singaravelan added the comment: Related : issue31562 -- nosy: +xtreak ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue35518] test_timeout uses blackhole.snakebite.net domain which doesn't exist anymore

STINNER Victor added the comment: CC Pablo who loves black holes ;-) -- nosy: +pablogsal ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue35518] test_timeout uses blackhole.snakebite.net domain which doesn't exist anymore

STINNER Victor added the comment: We should either recreate this "blackhole" service on pythontest.net (server controlled by the PSF) or drop the test. @Benjamin: Hi, do you know who maintain pythontest.net? Who can add a "black hole" service? -- nosy: +benjamin.peterson

[issue35518] test_timeout uses blackhole.snakebite.net domain which doesn't exist anymore

New submission from STINNER Victor : snakebite.net and blackhole.snakebite.net domains don't exist anymore, but test_timeout uses it: def testConnectTimeout(self): # Testing connect timeout is tricky: we need to have IP connectivity # to a host that silently drops our