Use the host the author likely meant in the first place. pop.gmail.com is
reliable. gmail.org is someones personal domain.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_socket_ssl.py b/Lib/test/test_socket_ssl.py
index 0d9dd7a..59ad8c7 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_socket_ssl.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_socket_ssl.py
@@ -41,10 +41,7 @@
# A service which issues a welcome banner (without need to write
# anything).
- # XXX ("gmail.org", 995) has been unreliable so far, from time to
- # XXX time non-responsive for hours on end (& across all buildbot
- # XXX slaves, so that's not just a local thing).
- ADDR = "gmail.org", 995
+ ADDR = "pop.gmail.com", 995
s = socket.socket()
s.settimeout(30.0)