[teststabilization] RFR: 8223856: Replace wildcard address with loopback or local host in tests - part 8

[Aleks Efimov]

Hi Daniel,

The changes looks good to me!

Best Regards,
Aleksei


On 16/05/2019 13:23, Daniel Fuchs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please find below a fix for [1]:
> 8223856: Replace wildcard address with loopback or local host in
>          tests - part 8
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dfuchs/webrev_8223856/webrev.00/index.html
>
> Some of the test failures weren't all attributable to the use
> of the wildcard: in some cases tests make assumptions that
> are not guaranteed to be true - e.g. given two different
> interfaces `i1` and `i2` you may not assume that because you
> can bind to i1 with port `p`, ephemerally allocated, you should
> also be able to bind to `i2` with the same port `p`.
>
> In such a case I have taken the liberty to add a retry mechanism,
> (that is: try again the whole thing) in the hope
> of decreasing the probability that someone else might
> be again bound to the new ephemeral port on the other interface.
>
> best regards,
>
> -- daniel
>
> [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8223856