Also skip testHostnameRes() if gethostbyaddr() raises an exception.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_socket.py b/Lib/test/test_socket.py
index 11883a8..bca1c6c 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_socket.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_socket.py
@@ -226,7 +226,11 @@
# Probably name lookup wasn't set up right; skip this test
return
self.assert_(ip.find('.') >= 0, "Error resolving host to ip.")
- hname, aliases, ipaddrs = socket.gethostbyaddr(ip)
+ try:
+ hname, aliases, ipaddrs = socket.gethostbyaddr(ip)
+ except socket.error:
+ # Probably a similar problem as above; skip this test
+ return
all_host_names = [hname] + aliases
fqhn = socket.getfqdn()
if not fqhn in all_host_names: