On 07/11/13 04:49 PM, Neil wrote:
> Ed Morley wrote:
> 
>> It has been our policy to discourage builds/tests run in automation
>> from relying on resources outside of the build network, to avoid
>> non-deterministic failures across the board and to reduce noise in
>> performance tests.
>>
>> As of Saturday, this policy will be enforced by the RelEng firewall
>> being set to Deny-All by default
> 
> Is it not possible to modify the .pac file used by tests to stop them
> accessing any network resources? (Or at least only those that have had
> to be whitelisted until the appropriate tests are fixed?)

There's also security reasons for blocking outbound traffic. Eg, any
account with commit access shouldn't be able to upload files to
arbitrary places.
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