java - How to set the timeout for socket when looking for host?

Question

In my unit test, I use commons httpclient to request a incorrect remote web site, and the max timeout is:

@Test(timeout = 10000)
public void should_not_be_accessible_if_configuration_is_incorrect() throws Exception {
     // use httpclient to visit an invalid remote http web site
}

But it may throw such an exception in some computers:

java.lang.Exception: test timed out after 10000 milliseconds
at java.net.Inet4AddressImpl.lookupAllHostAddr(Native Method)
at java.net.InetAddress$1.lookupAllHostAddr(InetAddress.java:894)
at java.net.InetAddress.getAddressesFromNameService(InetAddress.java:1286)
at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName0(InetAddress.java:1239)
at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName(InetAddress.java:1155)
at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName(InetAddress.java:1091)
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.SystemDefaultDnsResolver.resolve(SystemDefaultDnsResolver.java:44)
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.HttpClientConnectionOperator.connect(HttpClientConnectionOperator.java:102)
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.connect(PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.java:314)
at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.MainClientExec.establishRoute(MainClientExec.java:357)
at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.MainClientExec.execute(MainClientExec.java:218)
at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.ProtocolExec.execute(ProtocolExec.java:194)
at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RetryExec.execute(RetryExec.java:85)
at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RedirectExec.execute(RedirectExec.java:108)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.InternalHttpClient.doExecute(InternalHttpClient.java:186)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:82)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:106)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:57)

Seems it's blocking on the method: java.net.Inet4AddressImpl.lookupAllHostAddr()

I wonder is there any way to set a max timeout for it?

Answer 1

You can control Java's DNS timeouts via the timeout properties described here:

com.example.jndi.dns.timeout.initial
com.example.jndi.dns.timeout.retries