GitHub user tillrohrmann opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2998
[FLINK-5330] [tests] Harden KafkaConsumer08Test to fail reliably with unknown host exception Using static mocking to reliably fail the InetAddress.getByName call with an UnknowHostException. Furthermore, the PR decreases the connection timeouts which speeds the test execution up. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/tillrohrmann/flink fixKafkaConsumer08Test Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2998.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #2998 ---- commit e91b4593122ec223dbd3c2140ba7e82d2282bc1d Author: Till Rohrmann <trohrm...@apache.org> Date: 2016-12-13T14:48:06Z [FLINK-5330] [tests] Harden KafkaConsumer08Test to fail reliably with unknown host exception Using static mocking to reliably fail the InetAddress.getByName call with an UnknowHostException. Furthermore, the PR decreases the connection timeouts which speeds the test execution up. ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---