Jakub Wilk writes ("Re: Alternative solution (was: Re: Network access during
build)"):
> * Jakub Wilk <jw...@debian.org>, 2016-09-07, 23:49:
> >you can completely disable external network with socket_wrapper
>
> ... which is a pretty heavy-weight solution, and in fact it breaks
> asyncssh's tests.
Then that is clearly a bug in asyncssh's tests. Package builds and
tests should work in such a situation.
> Luckily, glibc has a way to disable DNS queries without LD_PRELOAD trickery:
>
> $ RES_OPTIONS=attempts:0 wget http://www.example.com/
> --2016-09-29 22:49:22-- http://www.example.com/
> Resolving www.example.com (www.example.com)... failed: Temporary failure in
> name resolution.
> wget: unable to resolve host address ‘www.example.com’
That's interesting - thanks for a useful contribution.
Doing that in the asyncssh package (either in debian/ or in upstream)
would mean that the above bug would go away.
Ian.
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