Test suite on BSDI BSD/OS

[Russ Allbery]

Julien ÉLIE <julien at trigofacile.com> writes:

> Digging into the contents of the variable, I see that
>    host = gethostbyname(nodename);
> sets host to "foo.invalid" when nodename is "foo.invalid".
>
> Hmm...
>
> gallifrey% host foo.invalid
> foo.invalid has address 208.67.217.132
> Host foo.invalid not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
>
> gallifrey% host 208.67.217.132
> 132.217.67.208.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer hit-nxdomain.opendns.com.
>
> It seems that the open DNS server used by The Doctor redirects unknown hosts
> to their own site.  Thus, breaking the test suite.

I had a sneaking suspicion it was something like that.  Yay, DNS services
that break DNS.

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