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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.
20001224 ui: new dnstrace output format. ui: dnstrace shows all servers providing each ns/a line. ui: added dnstracesort. 20001225 internal: response_rstart() and response_cname() use uint32 ttl. internal: added response_hidettl(). internal: cache_get() returns ttl. internal: dnscache keeps track of ttls for aliases. ui: dnscache returns ttl unless $HIDETTL is set. ui: dnscache returns ttl 655360 for localhost et al. 20001226 ui: dnscache supports $FORWARDONLY. tnx to several people for the suggestion. tnx Dan Peterson for sample code. ui: dnscache now logs sequential query numbers, not indices. internal: revamped dnscache to separate udp from tcp. ui: dnscache reports uactive, tactive separately. ui: dnscache reports tcpopen/tcpclose by port and ip. ui: dnscache artificially times out oldest UDP query if UDP table is full, and oldest TCP connection if TCP table is full. ui: dnscache reports broken pipe when a TCP client sends FIN. 20001228 ui: dnstrace supports dd. ui: dnscache logs stats when it handles 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. ui: pickdns actively refuses queries for unknown types. ui: pickdns responds to MX queries. tnx Mike Batchelor. internal: added const at various places. internal: removed some unused variables. internal: used time_t in tai_now.c. internal: used stdlib.h in alloc.c. api: split dns_domain_suffix() into suffix(), suffixpos(). internal: switched to buffer_unix*. internal: included unistd.h for various declarations. 20010103 ui: increased maximum data size from 512 bytes to 32767 bytes in tinydns, tinydns-get, axfrdns. allows big TXT records. ui: dnsmx reformats name when it prints an artificial 0 MX. 20010105 ui: increased MAXLEVEL to 5. the Internet is becoming more glueless every day. 20010106 version: djbdns 1.03.
2001-01-10 04:23:49 +01:00
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
20001224 ui: new dnstrace output format. ui: dnstrace shows all servers providing each ns/a line. ui: added dnstracesort. 20001225 internal: response_rstart() and response_cname() use uint32 ttl. internal: added response_hidettl(). internal: cache_get() returns ttl. internal: dnscache keeps track of ttls for aliases. ui: dnscache returns ttl unless $HIDETTL is set. ui: dnscache returns ttl 655360 for localhost et al. 20001226 ui: dnscache supports $FORWARDONLY. tnx to several people for the suggestion. tnx Dan Peterson for sample code. ui: dnscache now logs sequential query numbers, not indices. internal: revamped dnscache to separate udp from tcp. ui: dnscache reports uactive, tactive separately. ui: dnscache reports tcpopen/tcpclose by port and ip. ui: dnscache artificially times out oldest UDP query if UDP table is full, and oldest TCP connection if TCP table is full. ui: dnscache reports broken pipe when a TCP client sends FIN. 20001228 ui: dnstrace supports dd. ui: dnscache logs stats when it handles 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. ui: pickdns actively refuses queries for unknown types. ui: pickdns responds to MX queries. tnx Mike Batchelor. internal: added const at various places. internal: removed some unused variables. internal: used time_t in tai_now.c. internal: used stdlib.h in alloc.c. api: split dns_domain_suffix() into suffix(), suffixpos(). internal: switched to buffer_unix*. internal: included unistd.h for various declarations. 20010103 ui: increased maximum data size from 512 bytes to 32767 bytes in tinydns, tinydns-get, axfrdns. allows big TXT records. ui: dnsmx reformats name when it prints an artificial 0 MX. 20010105 ui: increased MAXLEVEL to 5. the Internet is becoming more glueless every day. 20010106 version: djbdns 1.03.
2001-01-10 04:23:49 +01:00
(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.
20001224 ui: new dnstrace output format. ui: dnstrace shows all servers providing each ns/a line. ui: added dnstracesort. 20001225 internal: response_rstart() and response_cname() use uint32 ttl. internal: added response_hidettl(). internal: cache_get() returns ttl. internal: dnscache keeps track of ttls for aliases. ui: dnscache returns ttl unless $HIDETTL is set. ui: dnscache returns ttl 655360 for localhost et al. 20001226 ui: dnscache supports $FORWARDONLY. tnx to several people for the suggestion. tnx Dan Peterson for sample code. ui: dnscache now logs sequential query numbers, not indices. internal: revamped dnscache to separate udp from tcp. ui: dnscache reports uactive, tactive separately. ui: dnscache reports tcpopen/tcpclose by port and ip. ui: dnscache artificially times out oldest UDP query if UDP table is full, and oldest TCP connection if TCP table is full. ui: dnscache reports broken pipe when a TCP client sends FIN. 20001228 ui: dnstrace supports dd. ui: dnscache logs stats when it handles 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. ui: pickdns actively refuses queries for unknown types. ui: pickdns responds to MX queries. tnx Mike Batchelor. internal: added const at various places. internal: removed some unused variables. internal: used time_t in tai_now.c. internal: used stdlib.h in alloc.c. api: split dns_domain_suffix() into suffix(), suffixpos(). internal: switched to buffer_unix*. internal: included unistd.h for various declarations. 20010103 ui: increased maximum data size from 512 bytes to 32767 bytes in tinydns, tinydns-get, axfrdns. allows big TXT records. ui: dnsmx reformats name when it prints an artificial 0 MX. 20010105 ui: increased MAXLEVEL to 5. the Internet is becoming more glueless every day. 20010106 version: djbdns 1.03.
2001-01-10 04:23:49 +01:00
Please read http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/upgrade.html if you're upgrading from
previous version of djbdns.