diff --git a/artemis-commons/src/test/java/org/apache/activemq/artemis/utils/network/NetUtil.java b/artemis-commons/src/test/java/org/apache/activemq/artemis/utils/network/NetUtil.java
index ea7a107d2de..81c661fb519 100644
--- a/artemis-commons/src/test/java/org/apache/activemq/artemis/utils/network/NetUtil.java
+++ b/artemis-commons/src/test/java/org/apache/activemq/artemis/utils/network/NetUtil.java
@@ -90,19 +90,29 @@ private enum OS {
       osUsed = osTmp;
    }
 
-   public static void failIfNotSudo() {
-      Assume.assumeTrue("non supported OS", osUsed != OS.NON_SUPORTED);
-      if (!canSudo()) {
+   public static void skipIfNotSudo() {
+      skipIfNotSupportedOS();
+
+      boolean canSudo = canSudo();
+      if (!canSudo) {
          StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
          PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(writer);
-         out.println("Add the following at the end of your /etc/sudoers (use the visudo command)");
+         out.println("In order to run this test you must be able to sudo ifconfig.");
+         out.println("E.g add the following at the end of your /etc/sudoers (use the visudo command)");
          out.println("# ------------------------------------------------------- ");
          out.println(user + " ALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/ifconfig");
          out.println("# ------------------------------------------------------- ");
-         Assert.fail(writer.toString());
+
+         System.out.println(writer.toString());
+
+         Assume.assumeTrue("Not able to sudo ifconfig", canSudo);
       }
    }
 
+   public static void skipIfNotSupportedOS() {
+      Assume.assumeTrue("non supported OS", osUsed != OS.NON_SUPORTED);
+   }
+
    public static void cleanup() {
       nextDevice.set(0);
 
diff --git a/tests/integration-tests/src/test/java/org/apache/activemq/artemis/tests/integration/cluster/failover/NetworkFailureFailoverTest.java b/tests/integration-tests/src/test/java/org/apache/activemq/artemis/tests/integration/cluster/failover/NetworkFailureFailoverTest.java
index 8bae6e8f8af..ee6a3097fc6 100644
--- a/tests/integration-tests/src/test/java/org/apache/activemq/artemis/tests/integration/cluster/failover/NetworkFailureFailoverTest.java
+++ b/tests/integration-tests/src/test/java/org/apache/activemq/artemis/tests/integration/cluster/failover/NetworkFailureFailoverTest.java
@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@
 /**
  * This test will simulate a failure where the network card is gone.
  * On that case the server should fail (as in stop) and not hung.
- * If you don't have sudoer access to ifutil, this test will fail.
- * You should add sudoer on your environment. otherwise you will have to ignore failures here.
+ * If you don't have sudoer access to ifutil, this test will skip.
+ * You should add sudoer on your environment to run the test.
  */
 public class NetworkFailureFailoverTest extends FailoverTestBase {
 
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ public class NetworkFailureFailoverTest extends FailoverTestBase {
 
    @BeforeClass
    public static void start() {
-      NetUtil.failIfNotSudo();
+      NetUtil.skipIfNotSudo();
    }
 
    // 192.0.2.0 is reserved for documentation (and testing on this case).
diff --git a/tests/smoke-tests/src/test/java/org/apache/activemq/artemis/tests/smoke/dnsswitch/DNSSwitchTest.java b/tests/smoke-tests/src/test/java/org/apache/activemq/artemis/tests/smoke/dnsswitch/DNSSwitchTest.java
index f837fba9541..b29b0c65cc7 100644
--- a/tests/smoke-tests/src/test/java/org/apache/activemq/artemis/tests/smoke/dnsswitch/DNSSwitchTest.java
+++ b/tests/smoke-tests/src/test/java/org/apache/activemq/artemis/tests/smoke/dnsswitch/DNSSwitchTest.java
@@ -143,12 +143,17 @@ private static ActiveMQServerControl getServerControl(String uri,
 
    @BeforeClass
    public static void beforeClassMethod() throws Exception {
+      NetUtil.skipIfNotSupportedOS();
+
       if (USE_ETC_HOSTS) {
          if (!ETC_HOSTS.canWrite()) {
             System.out.println("If you want to run this test, you must do 'sudo chmod 666 " + ETC_HOSTS);
          }
          Assume.assumeTrue("If you want to run this test, you must do 'sudo chmod 666 " + ETC_HOSTS + "'", ETC_HOSTS.canWrite());
+      } else {
+         NetUtil.skipIfNotSudo();
       }
+
       serverLocation = getServerLocation(SERVER_NAME_0);
       // Before anything we must copy the jave security and change what we need for no cache
       // this will be used to spawn new tests
@@ -163,7 +168,6 @@ public static void beforeClassMethod() throws Exception {
             Files.copy(ETC_HOSTS.toPath(), ETC_BACKUP.toPath(), StandardCopyOption.COPY_ATTRIBUTES);
          }
       }
-      NetUtil.failIfNotSudo();
    }
 
    private static File getETCBackup() {