def METHOD_NAME(self):
    # Choose a private address that is unlikely to exist to prevent
    # failures due to the connect succeeding before the timeout.
    # Use a dotted IP address to avoid including the DNS lookup time
    # with the connect time.  This avoids failing the assertion that
    # the timeout occurred fast enough.
    addr = ('10.0.0.0', 12345)
    # Test connect() timeout
    _timeout = 0.001
    self.sock.settimeout(_timeout)
    _t1 = time.time()
    self.assertRaises(socket.error, self.sock.connect, addr)
    _t2 = time.time()
    _delta = abs(_t1 - _t2)
    self.assertTrue(_delta < _timeout + self.fuzz,
                 "timeout (%g) is more than %g seconds more than expected (%g)"
                 %(_delta, self.fuzz, _timeout))