X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/1fb7660fc893265f0e37ceb965396d9e005a0b74..exim-4_86:/test/README diff --git a/test/README b/test/README index 4f43b0b1a..7bf4ceea5 100644 --- a/test/README +++ b/test/README @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ In order to run this test suite, the following requirements must be met: is also an IPv6 address, additional tests are run when the Exim binary contains IPv6 support. There are checks in the scripts for a running IPv4 interface; when one is not found, some tests are skipped (with a warning - message). + message). The local net may not be in 10.0/8 as that is used by the suite. (9) Exim must be built with TRUSTED_CONFIG_LIST support, so that the test configs can be placed into it. A suitable file location is .../exim/test/trusted_configs @@ -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