Re: Problem running functional tests from China

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>]

On 2/24/21 12:06 PM, Michal Suchánek wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 10:29:15AM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> Just to inform the files hosted on github don't work when
>> testing from China:
> 
>>
>> raw.githubusercontent.com resolves to 127.0.0.1

Actually not even localhost but 0.0.0.0 :)

> And from where does this come from?
> 
> Your local system, your ISP, ... ?

Probably the ISP:

$ host -v raw.githubusercontent.com
Trying "raw.githubusercontent.com"
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 21011
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;raw.githubusercontent.com.     IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
raw.githubusercontent.com. 299  IN      A       0.0.0.0

Received 59 bytes from 210.22.70.3#53 in 3 ms
Trying "raw.githubusercontent.com"
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 60262
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;raw.githubusercontent.com.     IN      AAAA

;; ANSWER SECTION:
raw.githubusercontent.com. 297  IN      AAAA    ::

Received 71 bytes from 210.22.70.3#53 in 3 ms
Trying "raw.githubusercontent.com"
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 30016
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;raw.githubusercontent.com.     IN      MX

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
badlist.                350     IN      SOA     localhost.
root.locahost. 1 3600 900 2592000 7200

Received 108 bytes from 210.22.70.3#53 in 3 ms

I raised that problem not to find a way to bypass an ISP
firewall, but to see if there is a way to use another
storage for test artifacts so all the community can run
the tests.

Regards,

Phil.