From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 17:04:45 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Also skip testHostnameRes() if gethostbyaddr() raises an exception.
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~2874
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9647b5240cb407a04d09dba0aa54058f3a07f460;p=python

Also skip testHostnameRes() if gethostbyaddr() raises an exception.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_socket.py b/Lib/test/test_socket.py
index 11883a8857..bca1c6cabd 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_socket.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_socket.py
@@ -226,7 +226,11 @@ class GeneralModuleTests(unittest.TestCase):
             # Probably name lookup wasn't set up right; skip this test
             return
         self.assert_(ip.find('.') >= 0, "Error resolving host to ip.")
-        hname, aliases, ipaddrs = socket.gethostbyaddr(ip)
+        try:
+            hname, aliases, ipaddrs = socket.gethostbyaddr(ip)
+        except socket.error:
+            # Probably a similar problem as above; skip this test
+            return
         all_host_names = [hname] + aliases
         fqhn = socket.getfqdn()
         if not fqhn in all_host_names: