void host_object::test<9>()
{
std::string hostStr = "google.com";
LLHost host;
host.setHostByName(hostStr);
// reverse DNS will likely result in appending of some
// sub-domain to the main hostname. so look for
// the main domain name and not do the exact compare
std::string hostname = host.getHostName();
ensure("getHostName failed", hostname.find(hostStr) != std::string::npos);
}
void host_object::test<9>()
{
skip("this test is irreparably flaky");
// skip("setHostByName(\"google.com\"); getHostName() -> (e.g.) \"yx-in-f100.1e100.net\"");
// nat: is it reasonable to expect LLHost::getHostName() to echo
// back something resembling the string passed to setHostByName()?
//
// If that's not even reasonable, would a round trip in the /other/
// direction make more sense? (Call getHostName() for something with
// known IP address; call setHostByName(); verify IP address)
//
// Failing that... is there a plausible way to test getHostName() and
// setHostByName()? Hopefully without putting up a dummy local DNS
// server?
// monty: If you don't control the DNS server or the DNS configuration
// for the test point then, no, none of these will necessarily be
// reliable and may start to fail at any time. Forward translation
// is subject to CNAME records and round-robin address assignment.
// Reverse lookup is 1-to-many and is more and more likely to have
// nothing to do with the forward translation.
//
// So the test is increasingly meaningless on a real network.
std::string hostStr = "lindenlab.com";
LLHost host;
host.setHostByName(hostStr);
// reverse DNS will likely result in appending of some
// sub-domain to the main hostname. so look for
// the main domain name and not do the exact compare
std::string hostname = host.getHostName();
try
{
ensure("getHostName failed", hostname.find(hostStr) != std::string::npos);
}
catch (const std::exception&)
{
std::cerr << "set '" << hostStr << "'; reported '" << hostname << "'" << std::endl;
throw;
}
}
void host_object::test<9>()
{
// skip("setHostByName(\"google.com\"); getHostName() -> (e.g.) \"yx-in-f100.1e100.net\"");
std::string hostStr = "linux.org";
LLHost host;
host.setHostByName(hostStr);
// reverse DNS will likely result in appending of some
// sub-domain to the main hostname. so look for
// the main domain name and not do the exact compare
std::string hostname = host.getHostName();
try
{
ensure("getHostName failed", hostname.find(hostStr) != std::string::npos);
}
catch (const std::exception&)
{
std::cerr << "set '" << hostStr << "'; reported '" << hostname << "'" << std::endl;
throw;
}
}
