On 04/03/10 19:13, ic.nssip wrote:
Hello everyone,
When running "make test" on a BIND 9.7.0 installed on a x86 SUN
Solaris 10 machine, I've got this message:
I:NOTE: Many of the tests were skipped because they require that
I: the IP addresses 10.53.0.1 through 10.53.0.5 are configured
I: as alias addresses on the loopback interface. Please run
I: "bin/tests/system/ifconfig.sh up" as root to configure them
I: and rerun the tests.
Is this alias request just for test purpose,
Yes.
The tests mentioned involve setting up a number of DNS
clients and servers, each on its own address, and exercising
various queries and responses.
You opt out by not running the ifconfig.sh script.
I seem to recall that the installation instructions advise
you to read this script carefully before running it.
In my experience, some more recent OS environments impose
a restricted definition of PATH for root; this causes
ifconfig.sh to fail unless some extra commands are used.
These are trivial enough that I've never been minded to
file a bug report.
or it affects the
functionality and the performance of DNS Server as well after it goes
live?
No.
It was the first time I saw this message when installing a BIND DNS
Server from source file, and we never used these aliases on any of
our machines before. Also, I couldn't find many references on google
search for loopback alias addresses 10.53.0.1 through 10.53.0.5.
I'm not sure when this battery of tests was added, but our
site-local documentation (last revised in August 2006)
includes the following.
To run the complete set of tests for BIND, the system must be
temporarily configured with a number of additional local network
interfaces. A script for setting these up is included with BIND;
inspect it carefully before use, as it must be run as root.
This script must be run once, before testing, to set up the
interfaces, and again afterwards, to remove them.
sudo bin/tests/system/ifconfig.sh up
make test
sudo bin/tests/system/ifconfig.sh down
I hope this helps.
Best regards,
Niall O'Reilly
University College Dublin IT Services
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