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+DJBDNS is a collection of Domain Name System tools. It includes
+several components:
+
+ * The dnscache program is a local DNS cache. It accepts recursive DNS
+ queries from local clients such as web browsers. It collects
+ responses from remote DNS servers.
+ * The tinydns program is a fast, UDP-only DNS server. It makes local
+ DNS information available to the Internet.
+ * The pickdns program is a load-balancing DNS server. It points
+ clients to a dynamic selection of IP addresses.
+ * The walldns program is a reverse DNS wall. It provides matching
+ reverse and forward records while hiding local host information.
+ * The 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.
+ * The dnsfilter program is a parallel IP-address-to-host-name
+ converter.
+ * The dnsip, dnsip6, dnsipq, dnsname, dnstxt, and dnsmx programs are simple
+ command-line interfaces to DNS.
+ * The dnsq and dnstrace programs are DNS debugging tools.
+
+You may also want to use:
+ * pkgsrc/net/ucspi-tcp, if you're going to use axfrdns or axfr-get
+ * tinydns logfile formatter, installed under ${PREFIX}/bin/tinydns-log
+ * dnscache logfile formatter, installed under ${PREFIX}/bin/dnscache-log
+ (formatters are taken from http://tinydns.org, they need perl to run]
+ * tai64nlocal (pkgsrc/sysutils/daemontools) -- to convert timestamps printed
+ out by these two formatters to human readable form
+
+This package includes IPv6 patches written by Fefe,
+see http://www.fefe.de/dns/ for more details.
+
+Please read http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/upgrade.html if you're upgrading from
+previous version of djbdns.