honestly if i need name resolution i just add the entry in my router, at home.
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Joseph Sinclair <[email protected]> wrote: > I would assume that he's talking about broad testing within a local network, > rather than testing against localhost directly. > I often do this because I can insert firewalls, routers, etc... as/where > desired to emulate probable scenarios. It's particularly helpful to emulate > 4in6 or 6in4 connections when using external providers that do not provide > sufficient IPv6 support. > > It's just easier to create a hostfile entry on the test client(s) than to > create or modify public DNS (sometimes that's not even possible). This is > particularly true when the service you're testing is already live and you > need to black-box test a component of an interconnected SOA system. > > > Kevin Fries wrote: >> On 02/15/2011 10:42 AM, Joseph Sinclair wrote: >>> Tom, >>> Are you certain you need DNS and not, say, an entry in your hosts >>> file (/etc/hosts)? >>> Usually when testing I just add a hosts entry for the domain in >>> question to the test client boxes and/or servers and that resolves >>> things without having to mess with DNS. >> >> Local testing for connectivity is a dangerous tactic anyway. >> >> If there are no firewalls or other local security, you will get the same >> result testing against localhost as you would your local file system. >> So therefore there is no need for DNS at all. >> >> However, if you are trying to insure everything will operate against >> your public IP for say diagnostic issues, you need to hit your machine >> from outside your local network or at least from outside your local box >> (for a site available only inside your firewall). >> >> If you don't, you are in serious risk of issuing the following words, >> designed to irritate everyone... "But it works on my machine" >> >> Kevin >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
