Relative names with dots are now allowed if the dots are escaped

[nsc-5.git] / README

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@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 
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-WARNING: There were several incompatible changes between versions 3.1 and 4.0.
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+WARNING: There were several incompatible changes between major versions
          See NEWS for the summary of changes.
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+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 
    NSC is a set of shell and M4 scripts for easy maintenance of DNS zone files
@@ -67,9 +67,8 @@ An interesting companion to this package is the DNS Sleuth -- a DNS zone
 consistency checker. It's a simple utility written in Perl with help of the
 DNS module and it should be able to detect all common errors in DNS setup
 (I have written it after much disappointment with the other checkers).
-The Sleuth is available online on http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/sleuth/,
-follow the links to download the source. However, I haven't updated Sleuth
-for a long time, so it does not know about DNSSEC yet.
+The Sleuth is available from http://mj.ucw.cz/sw/sleuth/. However, I haven't
+updated Sleuth for a long time, so it does not know about DNSSEC yet.
 
 
 1. Directory structure
@@ -152,13 +151,6 @@ REVERSE(network, primary-files...)
                You can also use the REV macro explicitly, which can be handy
                for example in SECONDARY declarations.
 
-ROOTHINT()
-               Insert a definition of hints for reaching root servers into named.conf.
-               This is necessary if you want your DNS server to resolve foreign
-               domains; otherwise, it will only give out authoritative answers
-               for locally defined zones and forward queries. The location of the
-               file with the hints can be set by the ROOTCACHE directive (see below).
-
 FORWARDED(zone, ip...)
                Define a forwarding zone. All queries are forwarded to the
                specified name servers.
@@ -202,9 +194,8 @@ output with your own records.
 
 All host or domain names are either names relative to the current domain
 with no dots inside or absolute names (in this case, NSC automatically
-ensures that the trailing dot is present in the resource records). Relative
-names with dots are not supported, but they are rare and you can always write
-them as absolute anyway.
+ensures that the trailing dot is present in the resource records). If you
+really need a relative name with dots, escape all dots as "\.".
 
 Your menu:
 
@@ -352,7 +343,6 @@ NAMED_RESTART_CMD   Shell command for restarting the name server daemon
                        (default: rndc reload)
 
 CFDIR                  Directory with config files (default: cf)
-ROOTCACHE              File with the cache of root name servers
 
 REFRESH                        SOA record parameters
 RETRY