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

[Dmitry Samersoff]

Chris,

According to rfc2606 TLD .invalid is reserved for cases like this one,

So, it seems to me

    domainame.invalid

is the best approach.

-Dmitry


On 2012-12-12 20:15, Chris Hegarty wrote:
> 
> On 12/12/2012 14:14, Alan Bateman wrote:
>> ....
>>> -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.
> 
> The UHE is thrown from the client socket connect(). The Server in this
> case doesn't ever receive the destination address or host name. It is
> simply replying to the initial/opening SOCKS handshake.
> 
> The updated host name is still brittle ( if a .t TLD is ever registered!
> ). I don't have a better alternative.
> 
> -Chris.
> 
>>
>> -Alan
>>


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Dmitry Samersoff
Oracle Java development team, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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