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hill_t
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8 years ago
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Setting for endpoint dns cache

Is there any way to control the dns cache settings for Load UI tests?  The issue is when testing with network changes going on we want to ensure that requests do not continue to go to one server if i...
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    hill_t
    8 years ago

    We found a solution to this issue so I wanted to post it here in case someone else was searching for something similar and found my post.

     

    Changed the value of networkaddress.cache.ttl property in java.security from -1 to 0. This property indicates how many seconds to cache the most recent successful lookup. A value of -1 means to "cache forever" and a 0 means "never cache".

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hill_t
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Yes, we could do something like that where we try and IP and if it is not available to we try another.  However, part of the point of this test is to make sure we are redirected correctly when one set of servers is taken offline.  So doing something within our tests would really defeat the purpose in this case.

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hill_t
New Contributor
8 years ago

We found a solution to this issue so I wanted to post it here in case someone else was searching for something similar and found my post.

 

Changed the value of networkaddress.cache.ttl property in java.security from -1 to 0. This property indicates how many seconds to cache the most recent successful lookup. A value of -1 means to "cache forever" and a 0 means "never cache".