From 71e02946ff022adfa391af864638675788e1f044 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 16:55:15 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Skip testHostnameRes() if gethostbyname() raises an
 exception.

---
 Lib/test/test_socket.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_socket.py b/Lib/test/test_socket.py
index ca3c4ff2181..11883a88575 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_socket.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_socket.py
@@ -220,7 +220,11 @@ class GeneralModuleTests(unittest.TestCase):
     def testHostnameRes(self):
         # Testing hostname resolution mechanisms
         hostname = socket.gethostname()
-        ip = socket.gethostbyname(hostname)
+        try:
+            ip = socket.gethostbyname(hostname)
+        except socket.error:
+            # Probably name lookup wasn't set up right; skip this test
+            return
         self.assert_(ip.find('.') >= 0, "Error resolving host to ip.")
         hname, aliases, ipaddrs = socket.gethostbyaddr(ip)
         all_host_names = [hname] + aliases