RFR 8004925: java/net/Socks/SocksV4Test.java failing on all platforms

[Alan Bateman]

On 12/12/2012 14:02, Chris Hegarty wrote:
>
> The test tries to connect (through a socks proxy on the localhost) to 
> a domain that does not exist, "doesnt.exist.name". Guess what, someone 
> just registered a domain with that name!
>
> The test should be updated to use a domain name that really doesn't 
> exist.
>
> >: hg diff SocksV4Test.java
> diff -r 806cf26e5063 test/java/net/Socks/SocksV4Test.java
> --- a/test/java/net/Socks/SocksV4Test.java      Wed Dec 12 11:35:18 
> 2012 +0000
> +++ b/test/java/net/Socks/SocksV4Test.java      Wed Dec 12 13:59:27 
> 2012 +0000
> @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ public class SocksV4Test {
>          Proxy sp = new Proxy(Proxy.Type.SOCKS,
>                               new InetSocketAddress("localhost", 
> srvr.getPort()));
>          // Let's create an unresolved address
> -        InetSocketAddress ad = new 
> InetSocketAddress("doesnt.exist.name", 1234);
> +        InetSocketAddress ad = new 
> InetSocketAddress("d.o.e.s.not.e.x.i.s.t", 1234);
>          try (Socket s = new Socket(sp)) {
>              s.connect(ad, 10000);
>          } catch (UnknownHostException ex) {
>
> -Chris.
Would it be better if the test SocksServer had a list of knows that it 
always rejects? That might speed up the test too as it would avoid is 
trying to resolve host names or connect to hosts that don't exist.

-Alan