[issue12804] "make test" fails on systems without internet access

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> > If it is easy to detect network availability programmatically, we could
> > just use the skip system.
> 
> +1. I don't know if there is a reasonable way to do this, but if so, that
> would be the best solution.

Actually, the skip system is already supposed to work for that if used
properly (see test.support.transient_internet()). However, perhaps it
actually doesn't work in all situations.

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