Subject: Re: bug#17268: tests/guix-download.sh fails due to ISP's wrong-domain redirect

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 21:45:03 +0200

Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer <[email-masked]> skribis:

> It looks like the test guix-download.sh fails due to unwanted success
> when the user's ISP is being "friendly" and redirects to a help page
> when a non-existing domain is requested.  Log file:
>
> + guix download --version
> guix download (GNU Guix) 0.6
> Copyright (C) 2014 the Guix authors
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> + guix download http://does.not/exist
> accepted connection from pid 8210, uid 1000
> starting download of `guix-file.u5jS7M' from `http://does.not/exist'...
> following redirection to `http://navigationshilfe1.t-online.de/dnserror?url=http://does.not/'...

The ISP is hijacking the DNS, which is Bad, and there’s not much we can
do here AFAIK.

So let me apologize for the inconvenience, and close the bug.  :-)

Ludo’.