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

[Daniel Fuchs]

On 30/09/14 17:31, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 30/09/2014 08:21, Mark Sheppard wrote:
>> 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 }
> This looks okay to me, at least until somehost.some-domain starts to be
> resolved to some address :-)

I wonder: would something like

   "x-" + UUID.randomUUID().toString() + "-x.some-domain"

result in a syntactically valid address? If so it might
reduce the chances of collision...

best regards,

-- daniel

>
> -Alan