[New-bugs-announce] [issue42092] test_host_resolution_bad_address does not always fail as expected

[Barry A. Warsaw]

New submission from Barry A. Warsaw <barry at python.org>:

This is very likely caused by something janky my ISP (AT&T) is doing with IPv6, but the above named test fails for me because IPv6 addresses like `::1q` do not fail to resolve as the test expects.

I'm not sure what can or should be done about it, but as this is an annoying local failure, and I couldn't find another mention of it by searching bpo, I wanted to at least get it on record.

The test function's comment says:

"
        # These are all malformed IP addresses and expected not to resolve to
        # any result.  But some ISPs, e.g. AWS, may successfully resolve these
        # IPs.
"

So apparently, put AT&T in that bucket of ISPs that resolve those IPv6 addresses.

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messages: 379020
nosy: barry
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: test_host_resolution_bad_address does not always fail as expected
versions: Python 3.10, Python 3.7, Python 3.8, Python 3.9

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