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| author | Tim Beale <timbeale@catalyst.net.nz> | 2019-01-30 15:10:45 +1300 |
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| committer | Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org> | 2019-02-01 03:36:15 +0100 |
| commit | b4211f69233f954a3fa596f464276184d85d322b (patch) | |
| tree | 7f7b764f69d36e451d5bec7265416e1ecf955930 | |
| parent | a094e16fd58bec1d5938a25e941b15c180ec7a55 (diff) | |
| download | samba-b4211f69233f954a3fa596f464276184d85d322b.tar.gz | |
selftest: Add dns_hub to selftest/target/README
Add a description explaining what dns_hub does and why we need it.
Signed-off-by: Tim Beale <timbeale@catalyst.net.nz>
Reviewed-by: Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | selftest/target/README | 13 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | selftest/target/dns_hub.py | 2 |
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/selftest/target/README b/selftest/target/README index 36b68d5dd24..69d70217bdf 100644 --- a/selftest/target/README +++ b/selftest/target/README @@ -41,6 +41,19 @@ Note that several of the testenvs also use local in their name, e.g. 'localvampiredc'. In particular, there's the 'localdc', which is the NetBIOS name of the DC in the 'ad_dc_ntvfs' testenv. +dns_hub +------- +dns_hub doesn't run a Samba/smbd server like the other testenvs do. It's there +to solve the problem of how to do DNS more nicely in selftest. Running +autobuild can start up a lot of different testenvs, and so we end up with +different DCs running in different domains. Each test suite only wants to talk +to a specific domain at a time. However, by default the tests all use a common +client.conf - essentially the tests are simulating a single client that's +pretending to be in several different domains. The problem is when the test +wants to resolve a DNS host, which DC should it ask? Each DC only knows about its +own realm. dns_hub.py acts as a proxy, so it works out the correct DC to forward +the query to, based on the queried host's realm. + Vampire DC ---------- Vampire DC gets its name for historic reasons. It's one of the few testenvs diff --git a/selftest/target/dns_hub.py b/selftest/target/dns_hub.py index 97b7432294c..d2d1f39e752 100755 --- a/selftest/target/dns_hub.py +++ b/selftest/target/dns_hub.py @@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. # +# Used by selftest to proxy DNS queries to the correct testenv DC. +# See selftest/target/README for more details. # Based on the EchoServer example from python docs import threading |