Comment 3 for bug 1300141

I'm hitting something alike.

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Running openstack_dashboard tests
nosetests openstack_dashboard --nocapture --nologcapture --cover-package=openstack_dashboard --cover-inclusive --all-modules --exclude-dir=openstack_dashboard/test/integration_tests --verbosity=1
Creating test database for alias 'default'...
DeprecationWarning: django.utils.simplejson is deprecated; use json instead.
WARNING:py.warnings:DeprecationWarning: django.utils.simplejson is deprecated; use json instead.
................................................................INFO:requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTP connection (1): public.nova.example.com
DEBUG:cinderclient.client:Connection refused: HTTPConnectionPool(host='public.nova.example.com', port=8776): Max retries exceeded with url: /v1/os-quota-sets/1/defaults (Caused by <class 'socket.gaierror'>: [Errno -2] Name or service not known)
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