bind9/bin/tests/system

This is a simple test environment for running bind9 system tests
involving multiple name servers.

There are multiple test suites, each in a separate subdirectory and
involving a different DNS setup.  They are:

  xfer/		Zone transfer, update, and NOTIFY tests
  dnssec/	DNSSEC tests
  xferquote/	Zone transfer quota tests

Typically each test suite sets up 2-4 name servers and then performs
one or more tests against them.  Within the test suite subdirectory,
each name server has a separate subdirectory containing its
configuration data.  By convention, these subdirectories are named
"ns1", "ns2", etc.

The tests are completely self-contained and do not require access to
the real DNS.  One of the test servers (ns1) is set up as a root
name server and is listed in the hints file of the others.

To enable all servers to run on the same machine, they bind to
separate virtual IP address on the loopback interface.  ns1 runs on
10.53.0.1, ns2 on 10.53.0.2, etc.  Before running any tests, you must
set up these addresses by running the script "ifconfig.sh".

XXX the ifconfig.sh script is known to work only on NetBSD.

Because the servers run on port 53, the tests must be run as root.

To run the tests:

  sh run.sh xfer
  [check that xfer/ns3/example.bk has been created]
  [run update_test.pl against ns2, check that changes propagate to ns3,
  which they currently don't because notifies are not sent after dynamic
  updates like they ought to be]
  sh stop.sh xfer

  sh run.sh dnssec
  dig a.secure.example. a @10.53.0.4
  [should return 10.0.0.1, AD=1]
  dig c.secure.example. a @10.53.0.4
  [should return NXDOMAIN, AD=1]
  sh stop.sh dnssec

  sh run.sh dnssec --badsig
  dig a.secure.example. a @10.53.0.4
  [should return SERVFAIL]
  sh stop.sh dnssec

  sh run.sh xferquota
  [check that xferquota/ns2 now contains 100 .bk files]
  sh stop.sh xferquota

  sh clean.sh

XXX The manual operations in [brackets] above should be automated.

$Id: README,v 1.2 2000/05/15 23:09:42 gson Exp $