diff --git a/tests/CrawlerProcess/alternative_name_resolver.py b/tests/CrawlerProcess/alternative_name_resolver.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 2c466da04..000000000
--- a/tests/CrawlerProcess/alternative_name_resolver.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-import scrapy
-from scrapy.crawler import CrawlerProcess
-
-
-class IPv6Spider(scrapy.Spider):
-    name = "ipv6_spider"
-    start_urls = ["http://[::1]"]
-
-
-process = CrawlerProcess(settings={
-    "RETRY_ENABLED": False,
-    "DNS_RESOLVER": "scrapy.resolver.CachingHostnameResolver",
-})
-process.crawl(IPv6Spider)
-process.start()
diff --git a/tests/CrawlerProcess/caching_hostname_resolver.py b/tests/CrawlerProcess/caching_hostname_resolver.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f9eab3543
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/CrawlerProcess/caching_hostname_resolver.py
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+import sys
+
+import scrapy
+from scrapy.crawler import CrawlerProcess
+
+
+class CachingHostnameResolverSpider(scrapy.Spider):
+    """
+    Finishes in a finite amount of time (does not hang indefinitely in the DNS resolution)
+    """
+    name = "caching_hostname_resolver_spider"
+
+    def start_requests(self):
+        yield scrapy.Request(self.url)
+
+    def parse(self, response):
+        for _ in range(10):
+            yield scrapy.Request(response.url, dont_filter=True, callback=self.ignore_response)
+
+    def ignore_response(self, response):
+        self.logger.info(repr(response.ip_address))
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    process = CrawlerProcess(settings={
+        "RETRY_ENABLED": False,
+        "DNS_RESOLVER": "scrapy.resolver.CachingHostnameResolver",
+    })
+    process.crawl(CachingHostnameResolverSpider, url=sys.argv[1])
+    process.start()
diff --git a/tests/CrawlerProcess/caching_hostname_resolver_ipv6.py b/tests/CrawlerProcess/caching_hostname_resolver_ipv6.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3340d2f84
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/CrawlerProcess/caching_hostname_resolver_ipv6.py
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+import scrapy
+from scrapy.crawler import CrawlerProcess
+
+
+class CachingHostnameResolverSpider(scrapy.Spider):
+    """
+    Finishes without a twisted.internet.error.DNSLookupError exception
+    """
+    name = "caching_hostname_resolver_spider"
+    start_urls = ["http://[::1]"]
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    process = CrawlerProcess(settings={
+        "RETRY_ENABLED": False,
+        "DNS_RESOLVER": "scrapy.resolver.CachingHostnameResolver",
+    })
+    process.crawl(CachingHostnameResolverSpider)
+    process.start()
diff --git a/tests/CrawlerProcess/default_name_resolver.py b/tests/CrawlerProcess/default_name_resolver.py
index 60d91b68b..05a98fbec 100644
--- a/tests/CrawlerProcess/default_name_resolver.py
+++ b/tests/CrawlerProcess/default_name_resolver.py
@@ -3,10 +3,15 @@ from scrapy.crawler import CrawlerProcess
 
 
 class IPv6Spider(scrapy.Spider):
+    """
+    Raises a twisted.internet.error.DNSLookupError:
+    the default name resolver does not handle IPv6 addresses.
+    """
     name = "ipv6_spider"
     start_urls = ["http://[::1]"]
 
 
-process = CrawlerProcess(settings={"RETRY_ENABLED": False})
-process.crawl(IPv6Spider)
-process.start()
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    process = CrawlerProcess(settings={"RETRY_ENABLED": False})
+    process.crawl(IPv6Spider)
+    process.start()
diff --git a/tests/test_crawler.py b/tests/test_crawler.py
index 85035a220..246e54860 100644
--- a/tests/test_crawler.py
+++ b/tests/test_crawler.py
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ from scrapy.extensions.throttle import AutoThrottle
 from scrapy.extensions import telnet
 from scrapy.utils.test import get_testenv
 
+from tests.mockserver import MockServer
+
 
 class BaseCrawlerTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
@@ -280,9 +282,9 @@ class CrawlerRunnerHasSpider(unittest.TestCase):
 
 
 class ScriptRunnerMixin:
-    def run_script(self, script_name):
+    def run_script(self, script_name, *script_args):
         script_path = os.path.join(self.script_dir, script_name)
-        args = (sys.executable, script_path)
+        args = [sys.executable, script_path] + list(script_args)
         p = subprocess.Popen(args, env=get_testenv(),
                              stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
         stdout, stderr = p.communicate()
@@ -321,11 +323,19 @@ class CrawlerProcessSubprocess(ScriptRunnerMixin, unittest.TestCase):
             "twisted.internet.error.DNSLookupError: DNS lookup failed: no results for hostname lookup: ::1.",
             log)
 
-    def test_ipv6_alternative_name_resolver(self):
-        log = self.run_script('alternative_name_resolver.py')
-        self.assertIn('Spider closed (finished)', log)
+    def test_caching_hostname_resolver_ipv6(self):
+        log = self.run_script("caching_hostname_resolver_ipv6.py")
+        self.assertIn("Spider closed (finished)", log)
         self.assertNotIn("twisted.internet.error.DNSLookupError", log)
 
+    def test_caching_hostname_resolver_finite_execution(self):
+        with MockServer() as mock_server:
+            log = self.run_script("caching_hostname_resolver.py", mock_server.http_address)
+            self.assertIn("Spider closed (finished)", log)
+            self.assertNotIn("ERROR: Error downloading", log)
+            self.assertNotIn("TimeoutError", log)
+            self.assertNotIn("twisted.internet.error.DNSLookupError", log)
+
     def test_reactor_select(self):
         log = self.run_script("twisted_reactor_select.py")
         self.assertIn("Spider closed (finished)", log)