Chris, If you need definitely refusing port the best option is use port 0 reserved by IANA for this purpose.
Other option is use port 1, it reserved for tcp multiplexor service and nowdays is always closed for obvious security reason. -Dmitry On 2012-11-06 15:08, Chris Hegarty wrote: > Trivial test issue where the test will fail if run on a machine that has > a process listening on port 8080 ( test expects this port to refuse the > connection ). The solution is to simply open and close a listening > socket and use its ephemeral port. Should be good enough. > > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/8002297/webrev.00/webrev/ > > -Chris -- Dmitry Samersoff Java development team, SPB04 * There will come soft rains ...