# HG changeset patch
# User Augie Fackler <raf@durin42.com>
# Date 1508959834 14400
# Node ID 1122a90e329abca65c3ae3f3697f4619b1df1dca
# Parent  f73cc01a8167b70b2c3ac650f76d1f9c75537c89
test_push_command: deal with gethostname() sometimes returning bad hostnames

diff --git a/tests/test_push_command.py b/tests/test_push_command.py
--- a/tests/test_push_command.py
+++ b/tests/test_push_command.py
@@ -145,7 +145,14 @@ class PushTests(test_util.TestBase):
         # support and expect IPv6. As a workaround, resolve the hostname
         # within the test harness with `getaddrinfo(3)` to ensure that the
         # client and server both use the same IPv4 or IPv6 address.
-        addrinfo = socket.getaddrinfo(self.host, self.port)
+        try:
+            addrinfo = socket.getaddrinfo(self.host, self.port)
+        except socket.gaierror as e:
+            # gethostname() can give a hostname that doesn't
+            # resolve. Seems bad, but let's fall back to `localhost` in
+            # that case and hope for the best.
+            self.host = 'localhost'
+            addrinfo = socket.getaddrinfo(self.host, self.port)
         # On macOS svn seems to have issues with IPv6 at least some of
         # the time, so try and bias towards IPv4. This works because
         # AF_INET is less than AF_INET6 on all platforms I've