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authorDan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>2010-09-22 16:19:28 -0500
committerDan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>2010-09-22 16:19:28 -0500
commita211fadce06e7a78e693b85192b50f9e09df8972 (patch)
tree3421272e1605f701516ea0346faf76c1be4bbad0 /man
parenta1731c60644432cdec94841a033340bfc88568ec (diff)
parent06bd99f61779417453a049934ab136c8be9df955 (diff)
downloadNetworkManager-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.in30
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