addressed comments

Author: YamunadeviShanmugam

test/extended/cli/admin.go

@@ -566,10 +566,11 @@ var _ = g.Describe("[sig-cli] oc adm", func() {
 			ctx := context.Background()
 			isHyperShift, hsErr := exutil.IsHypershift(ctx, oc.AdminConfigClient())
 			o.Expect(hsErr).NotTo(o.HaveOccurred())
-			if isHyperShift {
-				g.Skip("Skipping on HyperShift: image extraction requires external outbound access to registry")
+			errorText := fmt.Sprintf("release extract err=%v output=%s", err, out)
+			if isHyperShift && cliOutputSuggestsNetworkIsolation(errorText) {
+				g.Skip("Skipping on HyperShift: `oc adm release extract` failed due to likely outbound network reachability issues to the release image registry (expected in some restricted VPC environments without mirrors)")
 			}
-			o.Expect(err).NotTo(o.HaveOccurred(), "oc adm release extract failed on a standard cluster")
+			o.Expect(err).NotTo(o.HaveOccurred(), "oc adm release extract failed where registry reachability appears healthy; details: %s", errorText)
 		}
 		o.Expect(out).To(o.ContainSubstring(`"kind": "ImageStream"`))
 		o.Expect(out).To(o.ContainSubstring(`"apiVersion": "image.openshift.io/v1"`))
@@ -659,3 +660,32 @@ func randomNode(oc *exutil.CLI) string {
 	o.Expect(err).NotTo(o.HaveOccurred())
 	return nodes.Items[rand.Intn(len(nodes.Items))].Name
 }
+
+// cliOutputSuggestsNetworkIsolation returns true when command output contains
+// errors typical of blocked egress or DNS/connectivity failures.
+func cliOutputSuggestsNetworkIsolation(output string) bool {
+	lowerOutput := strings.ToLower(output)
+	networkHints := []string{
+		"connection refused",
+		"connection reset by peer",
+		"context deadline exceeded",
+		"dial tcp",
+		"i/o timeout",
+		"no route to host",
+		"network is unreachable",
+		"tls handshake timeout",
+		"temporary failure in name resolution",
+		"failed to resolve",
+		"name or service not known",
+		"lookup ",
+		"rpc error",
+		"code = unavailable",
+		"unavailable: connection",
+	}
+	for _, hint := range networkHints {
+		if strings.Contains(lowerOutput, hint) {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}