Question : Socket Question

Does anyone have any idea on why socket connection timeout sometime does not timout with the value we specify in the Socket class ?

socket.setSoTimeout(5000) should timeout in 5 seconds if there was some issue in connecting to the host e.g host might be down for maintenance etc.

Answer : Socket Question

If it is a client socket, try this
http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-open-client-socket-with-timeout/