[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #15290: Blogger Importer plugin broken

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#15290: Blogger Importer plugin broken
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 Reporter:  yorksranter   |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:
Component:  Import        |     Version:  3.0.4
 Severity:  critical      |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch   |
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Changes (by yorksranter):

 * status:  closed => reopened
 * resolution:  duplicate =>


Comment:

 ''PHP is unable to contact the Blogger servers, due to DNS issue with
 PHP''

 I think it would help if you were to read the bug report.

 1) It makes 2 efforts to contact Blogger, which return a DNS error. True
 so far.

 2) BUT - key moment! - it then *succeeds* and returns correct post and
 comment counts for one of my two blogger blogs.

 3) However, it returns zero posts and zero comments for the other. Which
 is the one I want to import. IF I WANTED TO IMPORT THE FIRST BLOG, I
 COULD.

 This quite evidently has nothing whatsoever to do with DNS and everything
 to do with parsing. If it was a DNS issue, how could it possibly find out
 the post count for the first blog?

 Coda: it's always 2 DNS errors. Always. If it was just a transient DNS
 problem, it might be zero, or one, or 15. But it's always precisely 2. If
 you can think of any plausible failure mode that would lead a DNS resolver
 to ignore the first two A record queries but then function normally, but
 only manifest itself for WordPress... It's always 2.

 Reopening as the only chance of fixing this is a maintainer grasping the
 point that it is a parsing issue completely unconnected with DNS.

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