Re: Disable rdns for Kerberos tests

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Disable rdns for Kerberos tests
Date: 2023-04-07 23:41:48
Message-ID: ZDCqPGay0Hzo/pcL@tamriel.snowman.net
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Greetings,

* Stephen Frost (sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net) wrote:
> * Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
> > Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
> > > Push, thanks again!
> >
> > Why'd you only change HEAD? Isn't the test equally fragile in the
> > back branches?
>
> Following on from this after some additional cross-platform testing,
> turns out there's other options we should be disabling in these tests to
> avoid depending on DNS for the test.
>
> Attached is another patch which, for me at least, seems to prevent the
> tests from causing any DNS requests to happen. This also means that the
> tests run in a reasonable time even in cases where DNS is entirely
> broken (the resolver set in /etc/resolv.conf doesn't respond).
>
> Barring objections, my plan is to commit this change soon and to
> back-patch both patches to supported branches.

Done.

Thanks!

Stephen

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