1 Copyright (C) 2004 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 stub/ Tests of stub zone functionality
21 unknown/ Unknown type and class tests
22 upforwd/ Update forwarding tests
23 views/ Tests of the "views" statement
24 xfer/ Zone transfer tests
25 xferquota/ Zone transfer quota tests
27 Typically each test suite sets up 2-5 name servers and then performs
28 one or more tests against them. Within the test suite subdirectory,
29 each name server has a separate subdirectory containing its
30 configuration data. By convention, these subdirectories are named
33 The tests are completely self-contained and do not require access to
34 the real DNS. Generally, one of the test servers (ns1) is set up as a
35 root name server and is listed in the hints file of the others.
37 To enable all servers to run on the same machine, they bind to
38 separate virtual IP address on the loopback interface. ns1 runs on
39 10.53.0.1, ns2 on 10.53.0.2, etc. Before running any tests, you must
40 set up these addresses by running "ifconfig.sh up" as root.
42 The servers use port 5300 instead of the usual port 53, so they can be
43 run without root privileges once the interfaces have been set up.
45 The tests can be run individually like this:
51 To run all the tests, just type "make test".
54 Id: README,v 1.12 2004/03/05 04:59:12 marka Exp