diff --git a/jetty-server/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/server/handler/ConnectHandlerTest.java b/jetty-server/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/server/handler/ConnectHandlerTest.java
index 722584758a2..8a5ac5b5d2c 100644
--- a/jetty-server/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/server/handler/ConnectHandlerTest.java
+++ b/jetty-server/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/server/handler/ConnectHandlerTest.java
@@ -12,15 +12,21 @@ package org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler;
 //You may elect to redistribute this code under either of these licenses.
 //========================================================================
 
+import static org.junit.Assert.*;
+import static org.junit.Assume.*;
+
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.InputStreamReader;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.net.InetAddress;
 import java.net.Socket;
+import java.net.UnknownHostException;
 import java.nio.channels.SocketChannel;
 import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap;
+
 import javax.servlet.ServletException;
 import javax.servlet.ServletOutputStream;
 import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
@@ -31,13 +37,10 @@ import org.eclipse.jetty.io.EndPoint;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.server.Request;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.server.nio.SelectChannelConnector;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.toolchain.test.OS;
-import org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.Log;
+import org.junit.Assert;
 import org.junit.BeforeClass;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
-import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
-import static org.junit.Assume.assumeTrue;
-
 /**
  * @version $Revision$ $Date$
  */
@@ -120,7 +123,25 @@ public class ConnectHandlerTest extends AbstractConnectHandlerTest
     @Test
     public void testCONNECTBadHostPort() throws Exception
     {
-        String hostPort = "badlocalhost:" + serverConnector.getLocalPort();
+        String invalidHostname = "AMAZEBALLS_BADHOST.webtide.com";
+        
+        try
+        {
+            InetAddress addr = InetAddress.getByName(invalidHostname);
+            StringBuilder err = new StringBuilder();
+            err.append("DNS Hijacking detected: ");
+            err.append(invalidHostname).append(" should have not returned a valid IP address [");
+            err.append(addr.getHostAddress()).append("].  ");
+            err.append("Fix your DNS provider to have this test pass.");
+            err.append("\nFor more info see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_hijacking");
+            Assert.assertNull(err.toString(), addr);
+        }
+        catch (UnknownHostException e)
+        {
+            // expected path
+        }
+        
+        String hostPort = String.format("%s:%d",invalidHostname,serverConnector.getLocalPort());
         String request = "" +
                 "CONNECT " + hostPort + " HTTP/1.1\r\n" +
                 "Host: " + hostPort + "\r\n" +
@@ -137,7 +158,7 @@ public class ConnectHandlerTest extends AbstractConnectHandlerTest
 
             // Expect 500 OK from the CONNECT request
             Response response = readResponse(input);
-            assertEquals("500", response.getCode());
+            assertEquals("Response Code", "500", response.getCode());
         }
         finally
         {