Python 2.2 Socket Test Failure

[Martin v. Loewis]

Michael Strayer <mstrayer1 at attbi.com> writes:

> I've built Python 2.2 on a Red Hat 7.2 system and when
> I run make test I get the following error:
> 
> test test_socket crashed -- socket.gaierror: (-2, 'Name or service not 
> known')
[...]
> 
> Could someone explain how to fix the socket crash.  Also how do I
> enable to network resource?

It did not really crash, it just found that the domain name service
does not work properly on your system; perhaps a network
misconfiguration. No need to worry.

Regards,
Martin