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Diffstat (limited to 'dns/pdnsd/pkg-descr')
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diff --git a/dns/pdnsd/pkg-descr b/dns/pdnsd/pkg-descr index b21dd3bc6945..610db2a00fdb 100644 --- a/dns/pdnsd/pkg-descr +++ b/dns/pdnsd/pkg-descr @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ pdnsd is a proxy dns server with permanent caching (the cache contents are -written to hard disk on exit) that is designed to cope with unreacheable or +written to hard disk on exit) that is designed to cope with unreachable or down dns servers (for example in dial-in networking). pdnsd can be used with applications that do dns lookups, eg on startup, and -can't be configured to change that behaviour, to prevent the often minute-long +can't be configured to change that behavior, to prevent the often minute-long hangs (or even crashes) that result from stalled dns queries. Some Netscape -Navigator versions for Unix, for example, expose this behaviour. +Navigator versions for Unix, for example, expose this behavior. pdnsd is configurable via a file and supports run-time configuration using the program pdnsd-ctl that comes with pdnsd. This allows you to set the status flags of servers that pdnsd knows (to influence which servers pdnsd will |