[Freeipa-devel] DNS tests [from LinuxAlt 2013]

[Derek Moore]

Perhaps whoever wrote these: ?

http://www.freeipa.org/page/OpenShift_Broker_and_IPA_DNS_Server_with_Dynamic_Updates_with_GSS-TSIG

http://www.freeipa.org/page/OpenShift_Broker_Apache_%2B_mod_auth_kerb_for_IdM

I've tried to hit up openshift devs on IRC, but like oVirt they are very US
business hours oriented, which is when I'm usually working and not
tinkering on the fun stuff.

On Wednesday, November 20, 2013, Petr Spacek wrote:

> On 15.11.2013 18:30, Derek Moore wrote:
>
>> Is there an opportunity to also bring in OpenShift Origin, in particular
>> Broker, which also uses its own BIND with dyndb and/or nsupdate?
>>
>> Maybe they don't care as much since they use a limited subset of BIND only
>> for namespace and app subdomains.
>>
>
> Generally, I don't see a reason why not. Do you have any pointer to the
> right mailing list or particular person? It would help me a lot because I
> know next to nothing about OpenShift.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Petr^2 Spacek
>
>
>> Knot DNS looks cool, hadn't heard of these guys yet.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Petr Spacek <pspacek at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Hello list,
>>>
>>> as you may know, we don't have any tests for bind-dyndb-ldap/DNS in
>>> FreeIPA. It seems that we have a chance to change that now.
>>>
>>> The LinuxAlt conference 2013 brought the information that Knot DNS [1]
>>> developers plan to write a new test suite for their server, but as usual,
>>> resources are limited and nobody really want to spent time on tests :-)
>>>
>>> This resulted in the idea of test-sharing between Knot DNS and
>>> bind-dyndb-ldap/FreeIPA. I think that this would be beneficial for both
>>> sides.
>>>
>>> We can mutually re-use tests from the other project, so overall cost of
>>> test-development will be lower for both sides.
>>>
>>> The only technical obstacle is that we need to design/to bend testing
>>> framework from Knot DNS, so it will be able to run the same set of tests
>>> against BIND with bind-dyndb-ldap.
>>>
>>> It seems feasible after a quick look. We just need to allocate some time
>>> for initial discussion/framework design/bending and then we can add tests
>>> incrementally, as our schedule allows.
>>>
>>> Current 'test suite' is a part of Knot DNS git repo, and I think that it
>>> can stay in this way. The idea is to:
>>> - clone the repo
>>> - set few environment variables (to direct tests to local BIND)
>>> - run the tests
>>>
>>> That is it :-)
>>>
>>> It would be great if we could spend some time on this now. We need to
>>> discuss it and prepare the testing framework.
>>>
>>> We risk that Knot DNS guys will go ahead and design the framework in a
>>> way
>>> which will not fit to our needs if we will wait too long.
>>>
>>> [1] http://www.knot-dns.cz/
>>> [2] https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/knot/tree/master/tests-
>>> extra/functional
>>>
>>> The bonus part: A wiki page about current functional tests for Knot DNS:
>>> https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/knot/wikis/functional-testing
>>>
>>
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