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_ac         


        

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