diff --git a/fail2ban/tests/filtertestcase.py b/fail2ban/tests/filtertestcase.py
index 1368db32e4..1146cef8d9 100644
--- a/fail2ban/tests/filtertestcase.py
+++ b/fail2ban/tests/filtertestcase.py
@@ -1014,6 +1014,7 @@ def testTextToIp(self):
 	def testIpToName(self):
 		res = DNSUtils.ipToName('66.249.66.1')
 		self.assertEqual(res, 'crawl-66-249-66-1.googlebot.com')
+		self.assertRaises(Exception, DNSUtils.ipToName, ['10.0.0.0'])
 
 class JailTests(unittest.TestCase):