Hi Paul, I am pretty sure the culprit is this upstream issue: https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/issues/2305
So, the bug should resolve itself when BIND 9.16.10 is uploaded to the archive. If not, I'll modify the autopkgtest. Ondrej On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 at 21:09, Paul Gevers <elb...@debian.org> wrote: > Source: bind9 > Version: 1:9.11.5.P4+dfsg-5.1+deb10u2 > Severity: serious > X-Debbugs-CC: debian...@lists.debian.org > User: debian...@lists.debian.org > Usertags: flaky > Control: found -1 1:9.16.8-1 > > Dear maintainer(s), > > bind9 has an autopkgtest, great. However, your test (correctly) has the > restriction needs-internet, but it doesn't retry the part where it uses > the internet. On ci.debian.net, we're seeing (e.g. [1]) regular > failures in the internet based test. Can you please make the test more > robust against network issues? E.g. a couple of retries with some time > in between before failing? > > Because the unstable-to-testing migration software now blocks on > regressions in testing, flaky tests, i.e. tests that flip between > passing and failing without changes to the list of installed packages, > are causing people unrelated to your package to spend time on these > tests. > > I copied the output at the bottom of this report. > > Please do get in touch if we need to dive into this together. > > Paul > > [1] https://ci.debian.net/packages/b/bind9/testing/amd64/ > > https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/stable/armhf/b/bind9/8471318/log.gz > > autopkgtest [21:59:15]: test simpletest: [----------------------- > > ; <<>> DiG 9.11.5-P4-5.1+deb10u2-Debian <<>> -x 127.0.0.1 @127.0.0.1 > ;; global options: +cmd > ;; Got answer: > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 53032 > ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 3 > > ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: > ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096 > ; COOKIE: 20d019dc324ffa05fbfc9b425fc176b5e6f0b962dccc8e3c (good) > ;; QUESTION SECTION: > ;1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR > > ;; ANSWER SECTION: > 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. 604800 IN PTR localhost. > > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: > 127.in-addr.arpa. 604800 IN NS localhost. > > ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: > localhost. 604800 IN A 127.0.0.1 > localhost. 604800 IN AAAA ::1 > > ;; Query time: 0 msec > ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) > ;; WHEN: Fri Nov 27 21:59:17 UTC 2020 > ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 160 > > Checking for DNSSEC validation status of internetsociety.org > autopkgtest [21:59:17]: test simpletest: -----------------------] > >