bpo-35518: Skip test that relies on a deceased network service. (GH-15349)
If this service had thoroughly vanished, we could just ignore the
test until someone gets around to either recreating such a service
or redesigning the test to somehow work locally. The
`support.transient_internet` mechanism catches the failure to
resolve the domain name, and skips the test.
But in fact the domain snakebite.net does still exist, as do its
nameservers -- and they can be quite slow to reply. As a result
this test can easily take 20-30s before it gets auto-skipped.
So, skip the test explicitly up front.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_timeout.py b/Lib/test/test_timeout.py
index b54fc82..b07c07c 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_timeout.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_timeout.py
@@ -150,6 +150,7 @@
def tearDown(self):
self.sock.close()
+ @unittest.skipIf(True, 'need to replace these hosts; see bpo-35518')
def testConnectTimeout(self):
# Testing connect timeout is tricky: we need to have IP connectivity
# to a host that silently drops our packets. We can't simulate this