tests

Make HNS check and client instantiation more reliable #1109

Job	Run time
Code Quality	24s
Mocked Tests (ubuntu-latest, Python 3.8)	1m 0s
Mocked Tests (ubuntu-latest, Python 3.9)	1m 0s
Mocked Tests (ubuntu-latest, Python 3.10)	1m 2s
Mocked Tests (ubuntu-latest, Python 3.11)	1m 0s
Mocked Tests (ubuntu-latest, Python 3.12)	1m 16s
Mocked Tests (macos-latest, Python 3.8)	1m 18s
Mocked Tests (macos-latest, Python 3.9)	1m 1s
Mocked Tests (macos-latest, Python 3.10)	1m 1s
Mocked Tests (macos-latest, Python 3.11)	1m 2s
Mocked Tests (macos-latest, Python 3.12)	1m 8s
Mocked Tests (windows-latest, Python 3.8)	1m 0s
Mocked Tests (windows-latest, Python 3.9)	1m 1s
Mocked Tests (windows-latest, Python 3.10)	59s
Mocked Tests (windows-latest, Python 3.11)	1m 0s
Mocked Tests (windows-latest, Python 3.12)	1m 0s
Live Tests	0s
Test independent installs of clients	0s
Notify failed build	0s
	16m 12s

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