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authorschmonz <schmonz@pkgsrc.org>2004-09-01 20:07:35 +0000
committerschmonz <schmonz@pkgsrc.org>2004-09-01 20:07:35 +0000
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Updated man pages to 20031023. From the changelog:
* merge changes from http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/doc.tar.gz into: axfr-get.8, tinydns-data.8. * pickdns-conf.8, pickdns-data.8, pickdns.8: remove. * dnscache-conf.8, rbldns-conf.8, tinydns-conf.8, walldns-conf.8: adapt. * axfrdns-conf.8: new. pkgsrc changes: * Convert to bsd.options.mk. Available options: "ignoreip2 inet6". * Set USE_BUILDLINK3=yes. * Patch to honor PKG_SYSCONFDIR. * As long as we're patching, patch the installer to avoid setting unusual permissions on ${PREFIX} and ${PREFIX}/bin. * Work around the standard djbware errno problem on recent Linux glibc. * Update to the latest pkgsrc djbware RESTRICTED clause. * Remove the third-party logfile formatters (they can go elsewhere if needed). * Take maintainership (suggested by zuntum). Bump PKGREVISION.
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-DJBDNS is a collection of Domain Name System tools. It includes several
-components:
+djbdns is a collection of Domain Name System tools. It includes
+software for all the fundamental DNS operations:
-- dnscache: local DNS cache. It accepts recursive DNS queries from local
- clients. It collects responses from remote DNS servers.
-- tinydns: fast, UDP-only DNS server. It makes local DNS information
- available to the Internet.
-- pickdns: load-balancing DNS server. It points clients to a dynamic
- selection of IP addresses.
-- walldns: reverse DNS wall. It provides matching reverse and forward
- records while hiding local host information.
-- dns library: handles outgoing and incoming DNS packets. It can be
- used by clients such as web browsers to look up host addresses, host
- names, MX records, etc. It supports asynchronous resolution.
-- dnsfilter: parallel IP-address-to-host-name converter.
-- dnsip, dnsip6, dnsipq, dnsname, dnstxt, and dnsmx: simple command-line
- interfaces to DNS.
-- dnsq and dnstrace: DNS debugging tools.
+* DNS cache: finding addresses of Internet hosts. When a browser
+ wants to contact www.hotwired.com, it first asks a DNS cache,
+ such as djbdns's dnscache, to find the IP address of www.hotwired.com.
+ Internet service providers run dnscache to find IP addresses
+ requested by their customers. If you're running a home computer
+ or a workstation, you can run your own dnscache to speed up your
+ web browsing.
-This package includes IPv6 patches written by Fefe, see
-http://www.fefe.de/dns/ for more details.
+* DNS server: publishing addresses of Internet hosts. The IP address
+ of www.hotwired.com is published by HotWired's DNS servers. djbdns
+ includes a general-purpose DNS server, tinydns; network administrators
+ run tinydns to publish the IP addresses of their computers. djbdns
+ also includes special-purpose servers for publishing DNS walls
+ and RBLs.
+
+* DNS client: talking to a DNS cache. djbdns includes a DNS client
+ C library and several command-line DNS client utilities. Programmers
+ use these tools to send requests to DNS caches.
+
+djbdns also includes several DNS debugging tools, notably dnstrace,
+which administrators use to diagnose misconfigured remote servers.