an interesting failure of the test suite (and now I am stuck)

[Denys Duchier]

I have a new "improved" test failure today:

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FAIL: test_connection_error (bzrlib.tests.test_transport_implementations.TestTransportImplementation)

vvvv[log from bzrlib.tests.test_transport_implementations.TestTransportImplementation.test_connection_error(HttpServer)]
get_url http://jasldkjsalkdjalksjdkljasd/.bzr/branch

^^^^[log from bzrlib.tests.test_transport_implementations.TestTransportImplementation.test_connection_error(HttpServer)]
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/mnt/kubuntu/home/duchier/src/bzr.dev/bzrlib/tests/test_transport_implementations.py", line 598, in test_connection_error
    self.failIf(True, 'Did not get the expected exception.')
AssertionError: Did not get the expected exception.


and here is why:

$ hostx jasldkjsalkdjalksjdkljasd
jasldkjsalkdjalksjdkljasd	A	62.210.183.79
jasldkjsalkdjalksjdkljasd	TXT	"NXDOMAIN"


yep, today there's a DNS entry for jasldkjsalkdjalksjdkljasd!  In fact I get a
DNS entry for any arbitrary string.  Thank you wanadoo!  Whenever you try to
access an non existing host through your browser, they redirect you to a helpful
page instead of returning an error.  This is new.  Bloody morons!

I don't know what to do about this (I know I really should change ISP).

--Denys