diff --git a/Lib/test/test_robotparser.py b/Lib/test/test_robotparser.py
index 77cd7c4d2..5989d46d9 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_robotparser.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_robotparser.py
@@ -337,6 +337,7 @@ class PasswordProtectedSiteTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertFalse(parser.can_fetch("*", robots_url))
 
 
+@unittest.skip("TODO: RUSTPYTHON, AttributeError: module 'socket' has no attribute 'setdefaulttimeout'")
 class NetworkTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
 
     base_url = 'http://www.pythontest.net/'