1 Copyright (C) 2004, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015 Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
2 Copyright (C) 2000, 2001 Internet Software Consortium.
3 See COPYRIGHT in the source root or http://isc.org/copyright.html for terms.
5 This is a simple test environment for running bind9 system tests
6 involving multiple name servers.
8 There are multiple test suites, each in a separate subdirectory and
9 involving a different DNS setup. They are:
12 forward/ Forwarding tests
13 glue/ Glue handling tests
14 limits/ Tests of handling of large data (close to server limits)
15 lwresd/ Tests of the lightweight resolver library and daemon
16 notify/ More NOTIFY tests
17 nsupdate/ Dynamic update and IXFR tests
18 resolver/ Regression tests for resolver bugs that have been fixed
19 (not a complete resolver test suite)
20 rrl/ query rate limiting
21 rpz/ Tests of response policy zone (RPZ) rewriting
22 rpzrecurse/ Another set of RPZ tests to check recursion behavior
23 stub/ Tests of stub zone functionality
24 unknown/ Unknown type and class tests
25 upforwd/ Update forwarding tests
26 views/ Tests of the "views" statement
27 xfer/ Zone transfer tests
28 xferquota/ Zone transfer quota tests
30 Typically each test suite sets up 2-5 name servers and then performs
31 one or more tests against them. Within the test suite subdirectory,
32 each name server has a separate subdirectory containing its
33 configuration data. By convention, these subdirectories are named
36 The tests are completely self-contained and do not require access to
37 the real DNS. Generally, one of the test servers (ns1) is set up as a
38 root name server and is listed in the hints file of the others.
40 To enable all servers to run on the same machine, they bind to
41 separate virtual IP address on the loopback interface. ns1 runs on
42 10.53.0.1, ns2 on 10.53.0.2, etc. Before running any tests, you must
43 set up these addresses by running "ifconfig.sh up" as root.
46 If you wish to make the interfaces survive across reboots
47 copy org.isc.bind.system and org.isc.bind.system to
48 /Library/LaunchDaemons then run
49 "launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.isc.bind.system.plist" as
52 The servers use port 5300 instead of the usual port 53, so they can be
53 run without root privileges once the interfaces have been set up.
55 The tests can be run individually like this:
61 To run all the tests, just type "make test".
63 Id: README,v 1.16 2011/01/13 04:59:24 tbox Exp