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And it causes fun test failures (Score:1)
Some modules, e.g. URI, try live network testing and assume that perl.com will exist.
It happened to me this morning when I was updating some Bundle or other and it took me a while to figure out why the test was failing. When I finally opened the URL in question in a browser and got a 404 error, it was then pretty clear what the problem was.
Re:And it causes fun test failures (Score:1)
FWIW, LWP::Online does something similar, but uses a collection of 3 or 4 major sites (google, yahoo, microsoft, cnn) to determine "I CAN HAVE INTARWEB?" but it tolerates a couple of them going down...
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