RFR - 8159410: InetAddress.isReachable returns true for non existing IP addresses

[Rob McKenna]

Unfortunately the behaviour described is undocumented and was found the hard way. This part of the code is a necessity though.

	-Rob

On 21/09/16 09:48, Vyom Tewari wrote:
> Hi Rob,
> 
> Do you really think this extra check is required ?
> 
> if (pEchoReply->Status == IP_SUCCESS
> + && (int)pEchoReply->RoundTripTime <= timeout) I did not found any
> doc(MSDN) which explains this. I think in case of IP_SUCCESS "RoundTripTime"
> is always less than timeout. I think similar changes is required in
> Inet6Address.c as well ? Thanks, Vyom
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 21 September 2016 08:46 PM, Rob McKenna wrote:
> >Hi folks,
> >
> >I'd like to fix a bug caused by an incorrect assumption. The IcmpSendEcho* calls can actually return a similar set of errors regardless of whether the call itself failed or succeeded. This change checks that both the call and the ping were successful. In addition to that it takes a number of common failure causes into account before deciding to throw an exception.
> >
> >http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~robm/8159410/webrev.01/
> >
> >	-Rob
>