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-            Domain Name Server Configuration Utilities -- NSC 2.1
+            Domain Name Server Configuration Utilities -- NSC 2.2
 
-                      (c) 1998 Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
+                   (c) 1997--1999 Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
 
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
    NSC is a set of shell and M4 scripts for easy maintenance of all domain name
-server files. It requires BIND 8.X, GNU bash and GNU m4 to be installed on the
-system. All programs have been tested on Linux, but should work on all unices
-assuming the required packages are present.
+server files (including configuration and zone files). It requires BIND 8.X,
+GNU bash and GNU m4 to be installed on the system. All programs have been
+tested on Linux, but should work on all unices assuming the required packages
+are present.
 
    The whole program can be used and distributed according to the terms of the
 GNU General Public License. See file COPYING in any of the GNU utility archives
@@ -39,6 +40,11 @@ GNU General Public License. See file COPYING in any of the GNU utility archives
        - Enjoy your new DNS setup. If everything goes OK, be happy. Else
          write a bug report :-)
 
+   An interesting companion to this program is the Sleuth utility which checks
+consistency of DNS zones. It's written in perl with help of the DNS module,
+knows of more errors than other checkers and it's freely available at
+ftp://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/pub/local/mj/net/sleuth-1.0.tar.gz.
+
 
 2. The Domain List File
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -173,3 +179,9 @@ chkdom              Checks domains for correctness using the 'host' utility
                (check ftp://ftp.nikhef.nl/pub/network for latest version).
                Use chkdom <domain> <NS> to check specific domain or no
                parameters to check all domains mentioned in cf/domains.
+               It's even better to use the Sleuth script mentioned in
+               the introduction.
+
+convert                A simple perl script for conversion of zone files to NSC
+               domain files. Requires the DNS module (available from CPAN at
+               ftp.cpan.org).