<net-dev> Java_java_net_Inet6AddressImpl_isReachable0 is returning false for InetAdress 0.0.0.0

[Chris Hegarty]

On 03/05/2012 08:51, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 03/05/2012 08:46, Chris Hegarty wrote:
>>
>> On the test, it would be good to run with it with
>> -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true too, but ::0 should not be reachable.
>> I guess the test should check if preferIPv4Stack=true and skip testing
>> with ::0. Or only add ::0 to addresses if !preferIPv4Stack?
> Even if preferIPv4Stack is false then IPv6 may be disabled on the system
> so I suspect it will need to use NetworkInterface to see if there are
> IPv6 addresses on any of the interfaces. I think we have other tests
> that need to do the same thing (as you can probably guess, my motive for
> bringing this up during the review is to ensure that the test would be
> reliable in such environments).

L43: hasIPv6()

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/file/531ebfd8eb65/test/java/net/MulticastSocket/SetOutgoingIf.java

-Chris.
>
> -Alan