Fake DNS query result inside a test

[Weijun Wang]

Hi Vinnie

As you know, krb5 can read KDC info from DNS and I want to write a 
regression test on it. However, the test must be independent and it 
should not access any server not inside the test suite.

Java uses those 2 lines to read the KDC info. Surely it would work if I 
write my own DNS server and embed it into the test, but as you said, 
that's too complicated. So I was thinking about how to trick it to 
return something without querying a real server.

My current solution is to provide my own javax.naming.spi.NamingManager 
and make sure it shadows the original one by setting the path to 
-Xbootclasspath/p:. It is quite ugly and I feel shame to go this way.

Thanks
Max

On 11/07/2012 08:51 PM, Vincent Ryan wrote:
> Are you suggesting to run a local DNS server? If so then it is easy to access that
> via a JNDI context.
>
> If you're proposing developing a basic JNDI service provider then that would be
> more effort.
>
>
> On 7 Nov 2012, at 01:05, Weijun Wang wrote:
>
>> Hi Vinnie
>>
>> I want to write a regression test so that
>>
>>    Context ctx = NamingManager.getURLContext("dns", new Hashtable<>(0));
>>    Attributes attrs =((DirContext)ctx).getAttributes(
>>                      "_kerberos._udp.ASDF.COM.", SRV_RR_ATTR);
>>
>> can return some entries without querying a real external server.
>>
>> Is this possible by registering a local name server provider or else?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Max
>