erratic
erratic is a middleware useful for testing client behavior. It returns a static response to all
queries, but the responses can be:
- delayed by some duration
- dropped all together
- the truncated bit can be set
The erratic middleware will respond to every A or AAAA query. For any other type it will return
a SERVFAIL response. The reply for A will return 192.0.2.53 (see RFC 5737), for AAAA it returns
2001:DB8::53 (see RFC 3849).
Syntax
erratic {
drop [AMOUNT]
truncate [AMOUNT]
delay [AMOUNT [DURATION]]
}
drop
: drop 1 per AMOUNT of queries, the default is 2.
truncate
: truncate 1 per AMOUNT of queries, the default is 2.
delay
: delay 1 per AMOUNT of queries for DURATION, the default for AMOUNT is 2 and
the default for DURATION is 100ms.
Examples
.:53 {
erratic {
drop 3
}
}
Or even shorter if the defaults suits you. Note this only drops queries, it does not delay them.
. {
erratic
}
Delay 1 in 3 queries for 50ms
. {
erratic {
delay 3 50ms
}
}
Delay 1 in 3 and truncate 1 in 5.
. {
erratic {
delay 3 5ms
truncate 5
}
}
Drop every second query.
. {
erratic {
drop 2
truncate 2
}
}