On 27/01/10 at 09:42 +0100, Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> 
> Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > What about testing with the network down to find which is the affected
> > test, and disable that test?
> 
> "the network down" is much too general. Remember: this is about distributed
> applications; they obviously require "the network".  What that means is
> they must at least be able to open sockets to localhost.  Maybe they make
> some wild assumptions, e.g. that 127.0.0.1 is reachable or that there is
> some sort of DNS available that will resolve "localhost".  Maybe they need
> to be able to listen on some specific UDP or TCP ports.  I don't know and
> that's why I tagged this bug with "help".

All of this is true on my build nodes. The loopback network is fully
functional. You just can't talk to the Internet.
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