RFR: JDK-8058932 - java/net/InetAddress/IPv4Formats.java failed because hello.foo.bar does exist

Mark Sheppard mark.sheppard at oracle.com
Tue Sep 30 15:21:06 UTC 2014


Hi

Please oblige and review the following small change to test 
test/java/net/InetAddress/IPv4Formats.java

--- a/test/java/net/InetAddress/IPv4Formats.java        Tue Sep 30 
13:25:04 2014 +0100
+++ b/test/java/net/InetAddress/IPv4Formats.java        Tue Sep 30 
15:11:05 2014 +0100
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
              {"126.1", "126.0.0.1"},
              {"128.50.65534", "128.50.255.254"},
              {"192.168.1.2", "192.168.1.2"},
-            {"hello.foo.bar", null},
+            {"somehost.some-domain", null},
              {"1024.1.2.3", null},
              {"128.14.66000", null }

which addresses the issue

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8058932

ping hello.foo.bar

Pinging hello.foo.bar [127.0.53.53] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 127.0.53.53: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.53.53: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.53.53: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.53.53: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

this highlights a DNS configuration issue as indicated in
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/name-collision-2013-12-06-en

so we remove foo.bar from the test and replace with somehost.some-domain

regards
Mark


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