On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 18:17:23 +0200, Marc Lehmann <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 05:55:17PM +0200, Christian Walde
<[email protected]> wrote:
Also do note that this is not the case of a single user. You have a
number of reports on this in your cpantesters matrix:
I just went through all the fails on the latest perl release, and none
are due to that(or even to that test).
What are these failures you talk about, and what's your evidence that
these are indeed due to opendns (or a similar service), and not due to
some other bug?
Going through http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=AnyEvent+7.05 you have 49
FAILs due to this, none of them by me even. Some excerpts:
http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/c7a4f98a-25e1-11e3-884a-21c640c32a75
o2/AOL thing: http://85.183.254.9
http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/48c5aa68-2322-11e3-9ae2-ef7d3e2caed2
http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/434e2860-0b64-11e3-8b9a-9e6e5735fcd0
T-Online: http://62.157.140.133
http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/faa106ae-11f4-11e3-9561-96fdcf634b9e
Cox ISP: http://92.242.140.2
http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/39645820-0ad2-11e3-989d-cd200a9f6c7e
OpenDNS: 67.215.65.132 -> http://website-unavailable.com
A number of those i am sure are not even under the control of the user, but
mandated by their internet service provider.
You miss the purpose of the test - the test is not, as you assume, to
test the host system, the test exists to check whether AnyEvent can
properly
resolve on the host system.
The source code of the test
https://metacpan.org/source/MLEHMANN/AnyEvent-7.05/t/81_hosts.t
has exactly two tests, both of them check that the result of a failed
resolve
were overwritten by the instructions given in file indicated by the
environment variable PERL_ANYEVENT_HOSTS.
All that your patch does is to effectively disable the whole test, which
means it cannot even fulfill the purpose that, according to you, the
average user expects it to have.
All my patch does is skip the test if it is conclusively shown that the
system cannot adequately communicate a failed resolve. On all other systems
it will work as before and FAIL if PERL_ANYEVENT_HOSTS is ignored.
--
With regards,
Christian Walde
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