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Bug#931355: apt: unresolvable hostnames are wicked



On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 10:43:20AM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 01:04:28AM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> > Package: apt
> > Version: 1.8.2
> > Severity: wishlist
> > 
> > W: Failed to fetch http://mirror.lan.tarent.de/debian/dists/sid/InRelease  Something wicked happened resolving 'mirror.lan.tarent.de:http' (-5 - No address associated with hostname)
> > 
> > This is because I’m currently not in the VPN to $dayjob,
> > but unresolvable hostnames are not so special that they
> > are “wicked”, I think… perhaps, for them, a toned-down
> > warning is a bit more appropriate?
> 
> Of course they're not, which is why we print something like
> 
> E: Failed to fetch http://fdsfdijdfsds.exsapl/dodod  Could not resolve 'fdsfdijdfsds.exsapl'
> 
> when getaddrinfo() returns EAI_NONAME or EAI_SERVICE.
> 
[...]
> If you can figure out what it returned, please tell us.

Nevermind. It returned EAI_NODATA, "this host exists but has no address". Any other
cases we should consider as "Could not resolve"?

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