test: ensure bogus hostname lookups will fail with invalid hostname#494
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Some of our test systems were configured with some sort of DNS fail safe lookup which caused `host.domain` to resolve to 127.0.0.1, which caused AVC issues. The fix is to ensure that the hostname lookup will fail by using invalid characters in the hostname - host@domain is an invalid hostname. Signed-off-by: Rich Megginson <rmeggins@redhat.com>
Reviewer's GuideUpdates forwarding-related test cases to use an intentionally invalid hostname (host@domain) instead of a potentially resolvable one (host.domain), ensuring DNS lookups fail consistently across environments and avoiding unintended connections to localhost or other systems. File-Level Changes
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Hey - I've left some high level feedback:
- Since this bogus hostname string is repeated many times across test files, consider defining it once as a shared variable/fixture to make future updates easier and ensure consistency.
- If the goal is specifically to guarantee DNS resolution failure rather than a syntax/validation error, you might want to use a syntactically valid but non-resolvable hostname (e.g.
nonexistent.invalid) instead of introducing an invalid character like@, which may change where the failure occurs in the stack.
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## Overall Comments
- Since this bogus hostname string is repeated many times across test files, consider defining it once as a shared variable/fixture to make future updates easier and ensure consistency.
- If the goal is specifically to guarantee DNS resolution failure rather than a syntax/validation error, you might want to use a syntactically valid but non-resolvable hostname (e.g. `nonexistent.invalid`) instead of introducing an invalid character like `@`, which may change where the failure occurs in the stack.Help me be more useful! Please click 👍 or 👎 on each comment and I'll use the feedback to improve your reviews.
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Some of our test systems were configured with some sort of DNS fail safe
lookup which caused
host.domainto resolve to 127.0.0.1, which causedAVC issues. The fix is to ensure that the hostname lookup will fail
by using invalid characters in the hostname - host@domain is an
invalid hostname.
Signed-off-by: Rich Megginson rmeggins@redhat.com
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