diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
index 22e553fa77f..4fc8c4307e6 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
@@ -1445,6 +1445,8 @@ class MiscTests(unittest.TestCase):
         self.opener_has_handler(o, MyHTTPHandler)
         self.opener_has_handler(o, MyOtherHTTPHandler)
 
+    @unittest.skipUnless(support.is_resource_enabled('network'),
+                         'test requires network access')
     def test_issue16464(self):
         opener = urllib.request.build_opener()
         request = urllib.request.Request("http://www.python.org/~jeremy/")