Re: {bb} bbgen 3.0 is now available

[Christian Perrier <Christian.Perrier@onera.fr>]

> * A new library, C-ARES, is now being used for DNS lookups. This
>   allows bbtest-net to perform all DNS lookups in parallel, and gives
>   greater control over how to timeout DNS lookups in case of problems
>   with your DNS servers. C-ARES is included with bbgen. An additional
>   bonus is that the "dig" and "dns" tests no longer rely on external
>   programs for testing DNS servers; this is now handled internally by
>   bbtest-net using the C-ARES library.

I'm afraid that the bonus on my side is that dns tests fail..:-)

Without no other changes in configuration on the servers side, the
tests which were successful now report:

red <!-- [flags:ordastILe] --> Tue Sep  7 12:16:08 2004 dns NOT ok

Service dns on tanis is not OK : Service unavailable


Server failed
id: 61908
flags: qr rd ra
opcode: QUERY
rcode: SERVFAIL
Questions:
        tanis          .                A
Answers:
NS records:
Additional records:

Seconds: 0.001





Status unchanged in 3.19 hours
Status message received from 125.1.1.3



The server is bind 8.3.3 on a Debian woody system (genuine Debian
package Version: 1:8.3.3-2.0woody2)

And of course, this server is working..:)


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