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authorJeremy Harris <jgh146exb@wizmail.org>2015-05-23 18:07:58 +0100
committerJeremy Harris <jgh146exb@wizmail.org>2015-05-23 19:50:13 +0100
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Testsuite: move test.again.dns and test.fail.dns handling to fakens
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@@ -1144,9 +1144,6 @@ fake zone files. These are:
data block. The addresses that are generated are in the
10.250.0.0/16 network.
-The domain names that are handled directly by Exim, without being passed to
-fakens, are:
-
test.again.dns This always provokes a TRY_AGAIN response, for testing the
handling of temporary DNS error. If the full domain name
starts with digits, a delay of that many seconds occurs.
@@ -1154,10 +1151,6 @@ fakens, are:
test.fail.dns This always provokes a NO_RECOVERY response, for testing
DNS server failures.
-This special handling could now be done in the fakens program, but while the
-old test suite is still being used it has to be done in Exim itself, so for the
-moment it remains there.
-
The use of gethostbyname() and its IPv6 friends is also subverted when Exim is
running in the test harness. The test code handles a few special names
directly; for all the others it uses DNS lookups, which are then handled as