Load testing a site whose domain name is not pointed/registered .

[rjdp]

I tried putting entry in /etc/hosts for the site but , the request were going to original site . I will explain with an example:

• Lets my site name google.com(mentioned as argument to server_name directive in vhost's nginx configuration) hosted on a vps with IP abc.efg.ijk.lmn
• In my /etc/hosts I have put an entry abc.efg.ijk.lmn google.com .
• I have abc.txt file in htdocs of my site google.com, and I am able to access it using google.com/abc.txt .

I have task in my locust taskset that is programmed to hit google.com/abc.txt

but when i run locust --host=http://google.com

but request is going to THE google.com

any help would be greatly appreciated

[mthurlin]

Locust uses gevent internally, and I know gevent has been having issues with DNS previously (pre 1.0):
http://www.gevent.org/whatsnew_1_0.html#new-dns-resolver

These should have been fixed with gevent 1.0, but you can try setting the environment variable:

GEVENT_RESOLVER=ares

and see if that helps.

You could also try making request with/without gevent from the python REPL to see if there is any issues there, or if it is related strictly to locust