Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 9/8/21 6:01 PM, Josh Triplett wrote: > > Now, that said, if the build process actually wants a DNS server to > > run tests against, it should provide or depend on such a DNS server, > > and configure it for such tests. > > Just to be 100% sure we're on the same page: that's *not* what dnspython > is doing. It's a client library that's testing parsing of the > /etc/resolv.conf format, and it just expects it to be there for parsing.
I understood that; I'd just wanted to make it clear that while programs parsing /etc/resolv.conf should assume a nameserver on localhost if /etc/resolv.conf doesn't exist, that doesn't mean that build processes should actually require that such a nameserver be running.
