[Twisted-Python] marking 3 problem tests on Windows 'todo'

Timothy Fitz TimothyFitz at gmail.com
Mon Apr 10 12:01:09 MDT 2006


On 4/9/06, glyph at divmod.com <glyph at divmod.com> wrote:
>  * twisted.test.test_udp.MulticastTestCase.testJoinFailure
>
> I'm not really sure what is going on here.  Some nuance of error reporting in Python?  127.0.0.1 _is_ considered a multicast address on Windows?  This seems like it should be TODO'd conditionally, and there should be a ticket to conclusively diagnose it.

It seems that the 127.*.*.* range is considered a valid multicast
address under windows, though I've found no functionality this exposes
(and no documentation or mention of it online). Other addresses do
properly fail.




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