Re: Unstable tests

On 4/5/18, Keith Mendoza  wrote:
> So again, at what point do we stop adding code to net-snmp because
> ISP's are messing around as if they're doing us a favor by letting us
> use their services?

Since people don't read the docs, how about adding a test to see if
dns is borked; if it is link to a faq entry for possible ways to fix
it.

verizon 'opt out of dns assistance' link:
  https://www.verizon.com/support/residential/internet/home-network/settings/opt-out-of-dns-assist

Regards,
Lee

> On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 7:13 PM, Bart Van Assche  wrote:
>> On 04/04/18 09:30, Keith Mendoza wrote:
>>>
>>> I actually found no.such.address in line 79 of T070com2sec_simple.
>>> That host has been hijacked by barefruit.co.uk who "generates highly
>>> targeted traffic for ISPs by replacing DNS and HTTP errors with
>>> relevant advertising"; which is now causing the test case to fail.
>>> Attempting to talk HTTP to the IP gave the the impression that either
>>> my ISP is cahoots with this company; or they're intercepting the IP
>>> back to their advertisement page. On the upside, Google's and
>>> cloudflare's DNS are not resolving; but, that still means point your
>>> network to use those nameservers :(
>>
>>
>> That means that your ISP is doing something dubious. Anyway, we could add
>> a
>> workaround for broken ISP DNS configurations using the same approach as
>> for
>> the domain names onea.net-snmp.org and twoa.net-snmp.org.
>>
>> Bart.

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