diff --git a/Lib/test/support.py b/Lib/test/support.py
index 11bb168..8ef87c2 100644
--- a/Lib/test/support.py
+++ b/Lib/test/support.py
@@ -17,19 +17,21 @@
 import importlib
 import collections
 
-__all__ = ["Error", "TestFailed", "ResourceDenied", "import_module",
-           "verbose", "use_resources", "max_memuse", "record_original_stdout",
-           "get_original_stdout", "unload", "unlink", "rmtree", "forget",
-           "is_resource_enabled", "requires", "find_unused_port", "bind_port",
-           "fcmp", "is_jython", "TESTFN", "HOST", "FUZZ", "findfile", "verify",
-           "vereq", "sortdict", "check_syntax_error", "open_urlresource",
-           "check_warnings", "CleanImport", "EnvironmentVarGuard",
-           "TransientResource", "captured_output", "captured_stdout",
-           "time_out", "socket_peer_reset", "ioerror_peer_reset",
-           "run_with_locale",
-           "set_memlimit", "bigmemtest", "bigaddrspacetest", "BasicTestRunner",
-           "run_unittest", "run_doctest", "threading_setup", "threading_cleanup",
-           "reap_children", "cpython_only", "check_impl_detail", "get_attribute"]
+__all__ = [
+    "Error", "TestFailed", "ResourceDenied", "import_module",
+    "verbose", "use_resources", "max_memuse", "record_original_stdout",
+    "get_original_stdout", "unload", "unlink", "rmtree", "forget",
+    "is_resource_enabled", "requires", "find_unused_port", "bind_port",
+    "fcmp", "is_jython", "TESTFN", "HOST", "FUZZ", "findfile", "verify",
+    "vereq", "sortdict", "check_syntax_error", "open_urlresource",
+    "check_warnings", "CleanImport", "EnvironmentVarGuard",
+    "TransientResource", "captured_output", "captured_stdout",
+    "time_out", "socket_peer_reset", "ioerror_peer_reset",
+    "run_with_locale", "transient_internet",
+    "set_memlimit", "bigmemtest", "bigaddrspacetest", "BasicTestRunner",
+    "run_unittest", "run_doctest", "threading_setup", "threading_cleanup",
+    "reap_children", "cpython_only", "check_impl_detail", "get_attribute",
+    ]
 
 class Error(Exception):
     """Base class for regression test exceptions."""
@@ -604,23 +606,63 @@
             else:
                 raise ResourceDenied("an optional resource is not available")
 
-
 # Context managers that raise ResourceDenied when various issues
 # with the Internet connection manifest themselves as exceptions.
+# XXX deprecate these and use transient_internet() instead
 time_out = TransientResource(IOError, errno=errno.ETIMEDOUT)
 socket_peer_reset = TransientResource(socket.error, errno=errno.ECONNRESET)
 ioerror_peer_reset = TransientResource(IOError, errno=errno.ECONNRESET)
 
 
 @contextlib.contextmanager
-def transient_internet():
+def transient_internet(resource_name, *, timeout=30.0, errnos=()):
     """Return a context manager that raises ResourceDenied when various issues
     with the Internet connection manifest themselves as exceptions."""
-    time_out = TransientResource(IOError, errno=errno.ETIMEDOUT)
-    socket_peer_reset = TransientResource(socket.error, errno=errno.ECONNRESET)
-    ioerror_peer_reset = TransientResource(IOError, errno=errno.ECONNRESET)
-    with time_out, socket_peer_reset, ioerror_peer_reset:
+    default_errnos = [
+        ('ECONNREFUSED', 111),
+        ('ECONNRESET', 104),
+        ('ENETUNREACH', 101),
+        ('ETIMEDOUT', 110),
+    ]
+
+    denied = ResourceDenied("Resource '%s' is not available" % resource_name)
+    captured_errnos = errnos
+    if not captured_errnos:
+        captured_errnos = [getattr(errno, name, num)
+                           for (name, num) in default_errnos]
+
+    def filter_error(err):
+        if (isinstance(err, socket.timeout) or
+            getattr(err, 'errno', None) in captured_errnos):
+            if not verbose:
+                sys.stderr.write(denied.args[0] + "\n")
+            raise denied from err
+
+    old_timeout = socket.getdefaulttimeout()
+    try:
+        if timeout is not None:
+            socket.setdefaulttimeout(timeout)
         yield
+    except IOError as err:
+        # urllib can wrap original socket errors multiple times (!), we must
+        # unwrap to get at the original error.
+        while True:
+            a = err.args
+            if len(a) >= 1 and isinstance(a[0], IOError):
+                err = a[0]
+            # The error can also be wrapped as args[1]:
+            #    except socket.error as msg:
+            #        raise IOError('socket error', msg).with_traceback(sys.exc_info()[2])
+            elif len(a) >= 2 and isinstance(a[1], IOError):
+                err = a[1]
+            else:
+                break
+        filter_error(err)
+        raise
+    # XXX should we catch generic exceptions and look for their
+    # __cause__ or __context__?
+    finally:
+        socket.setdefaulttimeout(old_timeout)
 
 
 @contextlib.contextmanager
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_robotparser.py b/Lib/test/test_robotparser.py
index fd00706..2a6d047 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_robotparser.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_robotparser.py
@@ -235,23 +235,24 @@
 
     def testPasswordProtectedSite(self):
         support.requires('network')
-        # XXX it depends on an external resource which could be unavailable
-        url = 'http://mueblesmoraleda.com'
-        parser = urllib.robotparser.RobotFileParser()
-        parser.set_url(url)
-        try:
-            parser.read()
-        except URLError:
-            self.skipTest('%s is unavailable' % url)
-        self.assertEqual(parser.can_fetch("*", url+"/robots.txt"), False)
+        with support.transient_internet('mueblesmoraleda.com'):
+            url = 'http://mueblesmoraleda.com'
+            parser = urllib.robotparser.RobotFileParser()
+            parser.set_url(url)
+            try:
+                parser.read()
+            except URLError:
+                self.skipTest('%s is unavailable' % url)
+            self.assertEqual(parser.can_fetch("*", url+"/robots.txt"), False)
 
     def testPythonOrg(self):
         support.requires('network')
-        parser = urllib.robotparser.RobotFileParser(
-            "http://www.python.org/robots.txt")
-        parser.read()
-        self.assertTrue(parser.can_fetch("*",
-                                         "http://www.python.org/robots.txt"))
+        with support.transient_internet('www.python.org'):
+            parser = urllib.robotparser.RobotFileParser(
+                "http://www.python.org/robots.txt")
+            parser.read()
+            self.assertTrue(
+                parser.can_fetch("*", "http://www.python.org/robots.txt"))
 
 def test_main():
     support.run_unittest(NetworkTestCase)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_socket.py b/Lib/test/test_socket.py
index 5e340bf..2415d53 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_socket.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_socket.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 import sys
 import os
 import array
+import contextlib
 from weakref import proxy
 import signal
 
@@ -1026,12 +1027,48 @@
 
 class NetworkConnectionNoServer(unittest.TestCase):
 
-    def testWithoutServer(self):
+    class MockSocket(socket.socket):
+        def connect(self, *args):
+            raise socket.timeout('timed out')
+
+    @contextlib.contextmanager
+    def mocked_socket_module(self):
+        """Return a socket which times out on connect"""
+        old_socket = socket.socket
+        socket.socket = self.MockSocket
+        try:
+            yield
+        finally:
+            socket.socket = old_socket
+
+    def test_connect(self):
         port = support.find_unused_port()
-        self.assertRaises(
-            socket.error,
-            lambda: socket.create_connection((HOST, port))
-        )
+        cli = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
+        try:
+            cli.connect((HOST, port))
+        except socket.error as err:
+            self.assertEqual(err.errno, errno.ECONNREFUSED)
+        else:
+            self.fail("socket.error not raised")
+
+    def test_create_connection(self):
+        # Issue #9792: errors raised by create_connection() should have
+        # a proper errno attribute.
+        port = support.find_unused_port()
+        try:
+            socket.create_connection((HOST, port))
+        except socket.error as err:
+            self.assertEqual(err.errno, errno.ECONNREFUSED)
+        else:
+            self.fail("socket.error not raised")
+
+    def test_create_connection_timeout(self):
+        # Issue #9792: create_connection() should not recast timeout errors
+        # as generic socket errors.
+        with self.mocked_socket_module():
+            with self.assertRaises(socket.timeout):
+                socket.create_connection((HOST, 1234))
+
 
 class NetworkConnectionAttributesTest(SocketTCPTest, ThreadableTest):
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_ssl.py b/Lib/test/test_ssl.py
index 193978c..4904bda 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_ssl.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_ssl.py
@@ -218,10 +218,10 @@
         # NOTE: https://sha256.tbs-internet.com is another possible test host
         remote = ("sha2.hboeck.de", 443)
         sha256_cert = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "sha256.pem")
-        s = ssl.wrap_socket(socket.socket(socket.AF_INET),
-                            cert_reqs=ssl.CERT_REQUIRED,
-                            ca_certs=sha256_cert,)
-        with support.transient_internet():
+        with support.transient_internet("sha2.hboeck.de"):
+            s = ssl.wrap_socket(socket.socket(socket.AF_INET),
+                                cert_reqs=ssl.CERT_REQUIRED,
+                                ca_certs=sha256_cert,)
             try:
                 s.connect(remote)
                 if support.verbose: