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author | Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> | 2010-09-22 16:19:28 -0500 |
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committer | Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> | 2010-09-22 16:19:28 -0500 |
commit | a211fadce06e7a78e693b85192b50f9e09df8972 (patch) | |
tree | 3421272e1605f701516ea0346faf76c1be4bbad0 /man | |
parent | a1731c60644432cdec94841a033340bfc88568ec (diff) | |
parent | 06bd99f61779417453a049934ab136c8be9df955 (diff) | |
download | NetworkManager-a211fadce06e7a78e693b85192b50f9e09df8972.tar.gz |
Merge remote branch 'origin/cachingdns'
Caching DNS with dnsmasq works well enough to merge for now. THere
are still some issues with the BIND plugin because BIND is god-awful
unecessarily complex so we'll disable that in a further commit.
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
-rw-r--r-- | man/NetworkManager.conf.5.in | 30 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/man/NetworkManager.conf.5.in b/man/NetworkManager.conf.5.in index 44d6da1be0..4e2bae9eb6 100644 --- a/man/NetworkManager.conf.5.in +++ b/man/NetworkManager.conf.5.in @@ -44,12 +44,13 @@ Description of sections and available keys follows: This section is the only mandatory section of the configuration file. .TP .B plugins=\fIplugin1\fP,\fIplugin2\fP, ... -List plugin names separated by ','. Plugins are used to read/write system-wide -connection. When more plugins are specified, the connections are read from all -listed plugins. When writing connections, the plugins will be asked to save the -connection in the order listed here. If the first plugin cannot write out that -connection type, or can't write out any connections, the next plugin is tried. -If none of the plugins can save the connection, the error is returned to the user. +List system settings plugin names separated by ','. These plugins are used to +read/write system-wide connection. When more plugins are specified, the +connections are read from all listed plugins. When writing connections, the +plugins will be asked to save the connection in the order listed here. If the +first plugin cannot write out that connection type, or can't write out any +connections, the next plugin is tried. If none of the plugins can save the +connection, the error is returned to the user. .P .RS .B "Available plugins:" @@ -104,6 +105,23 @@ Example: .nf no-auto-default=00:22:68:5c:5d:c4,00:1e:65:ff:aa:ee .fi +.TP +.B dns=\fIplugin1\fP,\fIplugin2\fP, ... +List DNS plugin names separated by ','. DNS plugins are used to provide local +caching nameserver functionality (which speeds up DNS queries) and to push +DNS data to applications that use it. +.P +.RS +.B "Available plugins:" +.br +.TP +.I dnsmasq +this plugin uses dnsmasq to provide local caching nameserver functionality. +.TP +.I bind +this plugin uses the ISC BIND program to provide local caching nameserver +functionality. +.RE .SS [keyfile] This section contains keyfile-specific options and thus only has effect when using \fIkeyfile\fP plugin. .TP |