Thanks!

I forgot about the amazing dbg - I’ve put this into test/test_helper.ex

require Logger

:dbg.start()

:dbg.tracer(
  :process,
  {fn {:trace, _pid, :call, {:gen_tcp, :connect, [host, port | _]}}, n ->
     case {host, port} do
       {~c"localhost", 5432} -> :ok
       {~c"localhost", 6379} -> :ok
       _ -> Logger.error("\n\n****\n\nConnection to #{host}:#{port} not allowed\n\n****\n")
     end

     n + 1
   end, 0}
)

:dbg.tp(:gen_tcp, :connect, [])
:dbg.p(:all, :c)

and it will log unwanted connections during tests.

You can configure the inet dns resolver to never resolve anything. That way only ip addresses will be possible to use.

For example:

echo "{lookup,[]}." > ./erl_inetrc
ERL_INETRC=./erl_inetrc iex
Erlang/OTP 27 [RELEASE CANDIDATE 2] [erts-14.2.3] [source-f7fa414e3e] [64-bit] [smp:8:8] [ds:8:8:10] [async-threads:1] [jit:ns]

Interactive Elixir (1.17.0-dev) - press Ctrl+C to exit (type h() ENTER for help)
iex(1)> :gen_tcp.connect(~c"localhost",80,[])
{:error, :nxdomain}

You can read more about how to configure inetrc here: Inet Configuration — OTP 29.0.2 (erts 17.0.2)

You can also try Overview — extrace v0.6.0 with some of the lower-level functions in :inet but I am not sure that would work at all.