[Bug 311473] Re: Should give better error messages if don't have bandwidth

[Stéphane Graber]

Hi,

You received this error from pastebinit because the DNS query failed.
This can be caused by various different problems including in your case the lack of bandwidth.
Pastebinit is just using urllib which in turns use the http functions of python finally using the python socket which is the one doing the DNS request. Even if we handled error reporting in pastebinit, the best we could show is something like "Failed to reach the remote pastebin" which would be a pain to debug in case you file a bug report where the traceback you copy/pasted in your bug report is actually useful and gives the developer an immediate idea of what happened.

As it's not a bug in pastebinit (it would have been if the pastebin
didn't exist) but rather an issue of not being able to perform a DNS
query on your system, I'm closing that bug report as Invalid.

** Changed in: pastebinit (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
       Status: New => Invalid

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Should give better error messages if don't have bandwidth
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