Override root hints properly when doing undelegated tests on the root zone - #466
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When the zone being tested is the root zone and undelegated data was provided by the user, zonemaster-cli failed to discard all previously loaded root hints before taking the undelegated data into account. Instead, the undelegated data was simply merged with the existing hints. For example, if doing an undelegated test of the root zone with undelegated data calling the root name servers “ns1” and “ns2”, previously, a test like Delegation01 erroneously reported 15 authoritative name servers in the child zone (13 from the built-in root hints + 2 from the undelegated data), instead of just 2.
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Purpose
This PR fixes a programming oversight where undelegated tests on the root zone would behave in an unexpected way. The undelegated data was merely added to the already-loaded root hints, instead of completely overriding them as one would expect.
Context
Fixes #465.
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How to test this PR
Unit tests have been updated and should pass.
You can also test manually by running the following command (but this is exactly what the newly-added unit test does):
Examine the output. It should be identical to this:
As an example, the following output is incorrect: