Re: Unstable tests

On 03/31/18 22:19, Keith Mendoza wrote:
> I personally feel that whoever is running the automated tests should
> make the necessary changes to their environment to resolve any
> hostname that is needed to run the tests.

I don't have root access to the BSD and AIX systems that I use for 
testing Net-SNMP. So modifying /etc/resolv.conf or equivalent on these 
systems is not an option.

> From a software development and testing point-of-view I feel that we
> will eventually get caught in expanding the number of hostnames that
> will have to be handled by all the hostname resolution utility
> functions in snmplib/system.c. I haven't had a chance to do a complete
> analysis of how many each of the *gethostbyname* function variants are
> used through the net-snmp code base; so, I'm not going to speak as to
> whether these changes is limited to netsnmp_gethostbyname_v4(), or
> should be applied elsewhere.

That's not correct. onea.net-snmp.org and twoa.net-snmp.org are the only 
two that need special handling. If more functions than 
netsnmp_gethostbyname_v4() would have to recognize these hostnames, we 
can refactor the host name resolution functions such that only one 
function needs to know about these special hostnames.

Bart.




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