RFR: JDK-8280498: jdk/java/net/Inet4Address/PingThis.java fails on AIX [v3]

[Michael Felt]

On Sun, 27 Feb 2022 14:11:28 GMT, Michael Felt <duke at openjdk.java.net> wrote:

>> with IP "0.0.0.0"
>> 
>> - it either does nothing and ping fails, or, in some virtual environments
>> is treated as the default route address.
>> - IPv6 support for ::1 is available since 1977; however, ::0 is not accepted
>> as a vaild psuedo IPv6 address. '::1' must be used instead.
>> 
>> ping: bind: The socket name is not available on this system.
>> ping: bind: The socket name is not available on this system.
>> PING ::1: (::1): 56 data bytes
>> 64 bytes from ::1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.037 ms
>> 64 bytes from ::1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.045 ms
>> 
>> --- ::1 ping statistics ---
>> 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
>> round-trip min/avg/max = 0/0/0 ms
>> PING ::1: (::1): 56 data bytes
>> 64 bytes from ::1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.052 ms
>> 64 bytes from ::1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.047 ms
>> 
>> --- ::1 ping statistics ---
>> 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
>> 
>> 
>> A long commit message. 
>> 
>> This came to light because some systems failed with IPv4 (those that passed
>> replaced 0.0.0.0 with the default router. but most just fail - not substituting
>> 0.0.0.0 with 127.0.0.1. However, InetAddress.getByName("") returns 127.0.0.1
>> which compares well with other platform's behavior.
>
> Michael Felt has refreshed the contents of this pull request, and previous commits have been removed. The incremental views will show differences compared to the previous content of the PR. The pull request contains one new commit since the last revision:
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>   8280498: skip test because: AIX does not respond internally to 0.0.0.0; ::0 is invalid

Deleted PR because the test is being skipped (at Adoptium). (ps. had had some issues with my ISP - had been putting mails from openjdk.java.net in SPAM folder - and who reads SPAM :) ).

Plan to be more responsive for coming issues.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7013