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Re: ai_flags in calls to getaddrinfo, broader call for reproducibility c


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: ai_flags in calls to getaddrinfo, broader call for reproducibility check
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 17:42:41 +0200

> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 17:01:53 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: rtt@dasyatidae.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > Iʼve lost track of which tests were failing, but something like
> > following. And if the 'dns-query' calls succeed but the
> > network-lookup-address-info ones fail then we have a really messed up
> > situation.
> 
> You assume that a TCP connection to the DNS server there will succeed?

Btw, this succeeds even on my XP box, which doesn't have IPv6
installed:

  (dns-query "google.com" 'AAAA)
    => "2a00:1450:4009:80b:0:0:0:200e"

So I'm not sure that test is reliable enough for these purposes.



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