I had always understood example.com to be reserved for documentation and that it should not be relied upon to exist.
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6761 On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 12:11 PM, Karen Etheridge <p...@froods.org> wrote: > > I have been told that access to example.com has been deliberately > blocked, this is not a misconfiguration. I am not at liberty to say why. > You may start to find others having problems accessing it. > > UGH! This is a legitimate testing site, one we can always count on being > up and returning a known and stable response. :/ > > If your ISP cannot resolve this, may I request that you please set > NO_NETWORK_TESTING=1 on all affected smokers? This will signal to > distribution tests that consent is not given to make network connections, > and relevant tests will be skipped. > -- David Golden <x...@xdg.me> Twitter/IRC: @xdg