[7u-dev] Request for approval: 8019834 InetAddress.getByName hangs for bad IPv6 literals

[Ivan Gerasimov]

Hello!

Would you please approve a straight backport to 7u-dev of the following fix.
The bug causes a test to hang.
The author of the fix is Okay with backporting.

BUG: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8019834
Changeset: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/jdk/rev/771c77b49bb6
Review: 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/net-dev/2013-November/007788.html

Sincerely yours,
Ivan