Error when runing apt-select about apt-select HOT 4 CLOSED

A check has been added in da8e07a to exit on name resolution failures.

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the solution is wrong. The traceback says that it's at 83% checking, it resolved 5 out of 6 hosts. Obviously the net connection was working and the fix to just exit is not a good one.

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It looks like this error can be caused by many things including improper DNS forwarding or a misconfigured DHCP server on your network. Depending on the cause, the problem probably won't just go away. If you run the script with these DNS errors, and the list of mirrors is long, it would needlessly try to resolve each mirror name before reporting nothing, and there would likely be later problems updating or installing using apt-get.

I agree that error handling shouldn't ignore unlikely scenarios like this or a dead mirror address provided by Canonical, but it should probably exit on deadly ones. However, if the script doesn't exit here, nothing really bad will happen so I agree we should just continue to let it run.

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Addressed in 467917c

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