The following networking tests have been seen to fail from a timeout, when the host is not accessible. These tests have nothing whatsoever to do with testing of network connections, they simply want to test the HTTP client implementation. This issue proposes to change the tests from using the host's name/address to using the loopback, to make them more robust.
test/java/net/CookieHandler/CookieManagerTest.java test/java/net/HttpURLConnection/UnmodifiableMaps.java test/java/net/URLConnection/HandleContentTypeWithAttrs.java http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/8158525/ https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8158525 -Chris.
