Bug 63570
| Summary: | [patch] Language cleanup for the Handbook's DNS section | ||||||
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| Product: | Documentation | Reporter: | Chris Pepper <pepper> | ||||
| Component: | Books & Articles | Assignee: | freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc> | ||||
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||||||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | CC: | chern | ||||
| Priority: | Normal | ||||||
| Version: | Latest | ||||||
| Hardware: | Any | ||||||
| OS: | Any | ||||||
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Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-doc->ceri I'll take this one. Responsible Changed From-To: ceri->freebsd-doc I don't really belong in the FreeBSD project anymomre. State Changed From-To: open->closed The DNS section has been reworked some time ago. I applied the still applicable changes in the patch, thanks! brueffer 2010-05-14 15:28:53 UTC
FreeBSD doc repository
Modified files:
en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-servers chapter.sgml
Log:
Improved wording in the DNS section.
PR: 63570
Submitted by: Chris Pepper <pepper@reppep.com>
Revision Changes Path
1.121 +9 -9 doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-servers/chapter.sgml
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Picked a bunch of language and consistency nits in the DNS networking section. As written, slaves only reply when the primary is down; this is not the case. Added a mention that there must be two authoritative servers. Revised caching terminology; among other things, caching is rarely *necessary*, but often valuable. At some point, cached records expire, so external lookups are required again. In addition, there's a deeper problem I didn't change. The two paragraphs below imply that slaves and masters are mutually exclusive. For all domains I've deal with, ns2 is a slave from ns1, but listed with an NS record in the zone, and thus authoritative as well. The terminolgy should probably be either clarified or changed, but I don't have a solution to propose at this point. <para>a backup name server, called a slave, must reply to queries when the primary is down or inaccessible.</para> <para>In the slave case, the zone information is transferred from the master name server for the particular zone, and saved in the file specified. If and when the master server dies or is unreachable, the slave name server will have the transferred zone information and will be able to serve it.</para> </sect3> Fix: Apply this patch. How-To-Repeat: Visit http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-dns.html