Available DNS/BIND test suites

[East Village]

Just wanted to get my two cents in as a newbie:

I have used dnstest.com with excellent ad-hoc results for configuration.

Sorry, no performance testing there and no network layer trapping, but
still a useful lazy man's tool.

J




On 6/12/06, David Robillard <david.robillard at notarius.com> wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org
> > [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On Behalf Of Rick Jones
> > Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 12:48 PM
> > To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
> > Subject: Re: Available DNS/BIND test suites
> >
> >
> > Jim <k0jkj at arrl.net> wrote:
> > > What software does the software / hardware (hi, Rick) community use
> > > to test their BIND implementation and or the other available DNS
> > > servers.  I need to check thing down to the individual bits in each
> > > packet. not just whether I get a response that appears to be
> > > correct.
> >
> > There are many Rick's out there - if you meant me I'll have to say
> > that my software - netperf - only measures performance.  It does not
> > attempt to gauge correctness.  Now, historically, the loads presented
> > by netperf _have_ uncovered bugs, but that is just a side benefit :)
> >
> > People are free to take the netperf stuff and morph it into
> > correctness tests if they like, but I'm not terribly interested in
> > converting netperf into a functional test suite.
> >
> > rick jones
> > --
> > a wide gulf separates "what if" from "if only"
> > these opinions are mine, all mine; HP might not want them anyway... :)
> > feel free to post, OR email to rick.jones2 in hp.com but NOT BOTH...
>
> Maybe dnswalk can be useful? But I'm not sure it has the level of depth you are looking for.
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/dnswalk or http://www.visi.com/~barr/dnswalk/
>
> I hope this can help.
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
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> David Robillard
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