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authorJeremy C. Reed <jreed@isc.org>2013-01-28 18:01:41 -0600
committerJeremy C. Reed <jreed@isc.org>2013-01-28 18:01:41 -0600
commit8e112e2bc6c2d1fd82a30bcc25f862be24d82b8b (patch)
tree3d1aad6c44c6079fcbd344d07441f118a7c65069 /server
parenta2bb892f71896c0f026755f510b2855d15faff65 (diff)
downloadisc-dhcp-8e112e2bc6c2d1fd82a30bcc25f862be24d82b8b.tar.gz
Various minor documentation improvements:
remove repeated words fix: it's to its some minor formatting added (this needs to be improved still, there is a mix of \fB Bold and \fI underline for same things) spelling fixes minor punctuation fixes (remove ...) uppercase an acronym that is not a config item (I didn't get this reviewed, these all are very minor or obvious.)
Diffstat (limited to 'server')
-rw-r--r--server/dhcpd.84
-rw-r--r--server/dhcpd.conf.513
-rw-r--r--server/dhcpd.leases.58
3 files changed, 13 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/server/dhcpd.8 b/server/dhcpd.8
index 94054bce..f4b13dcd 100644
--- a/server/dhcpd.8
+++ b/server/dhcpd.8
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ automatically before installing it.
.BI \-T
Test the lease file. The server tests the lease file
for correct syntax, but will not attempt to perform any network
-operations. This can be used to test a new leaes file
+operations. This can be used to test a new lease file
automatically before installing it.
.TP
.BI \-tf \ tracefile
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ Print version number and exit.
.I Modifying default file locations:
The following options can be used to modify the locations
.B dhcpd
-uses for it's files. Because of the importance of using the same
+uses for its files. Because of the importance of using the same
lease database at all times when running dhcpd in production, these
options should be used \fBonly\fR for testing lease files or database
files in a non-production environment.
diff --git a/server/dhcpd.conf.5 b/server/dhcpd.conf.5
index 9905754b..106206b8 100644
--- a/server/dhcpd.conf.5
+++ b/server/dhcpd.conf.5
@@ -780,7 +780,7 @@ The Failover pool balance statements.
This version of the DHCP Server evaluates pool balance on a schedule,
rather than on demand as leases are allocated. The latter approach
proved to be slightly klunky when pool misbalanced reach total
-saturation...when any server ran out of leases to assign, it also lost
+saturation \(em when any server ran out of leases to assign, it also lost
its ability to notice it had run dry.
.PP
In order to understand pool balance, some elements of its operation
@@ -1228,12 +1228,12 @@ IP address, it can update its own A record, assuming that the
.PP
If the server is configured not to allow client updates, or if the
client doesn't want to do its own update, the server will simply
-choose a name for the client from either the fqdn option (if present)
+choose a name for the client from either the \fBfqdn\fR option (if present)
or the hostname option (if present). It will use its own
domain name for the client, just as in the ad-hoc update scheme.
It will then update both the A and PTR record, using the name that it
chose for the client. If the client sends a fully-qualified domain
-name in the fqdn option, the server uses only the leftmost part of the
+name in the \fBfqdn\fR option, the server uses only the leftmost part of the
domain name - in the example above, "jschmoe" instead of
"jschmoe.radish.org".
.PP
@@ -2051,7 +2051,7 @@ The \fIddns-hostname\fR statement
.B ddns-hostname \fIname\fB;\fR
.PP
The \fIname\fR parameter should be the hostname that will be used in
-setting up the client's A and PTR records. If no ddns-hostname is
+setting up the client's A and PTR records. If no \fIddns-hostname\fR is
specified in scope, then the server will derive the hostname
automatically, using an algorithm that varies for each of the
different update methods.
@@ -2199,7 +2199,7 @@ set to \fBinterim\fR. Forward updates are enabled by default. If
this statement is used to disable forward updates, the DHCP server
will never attempt to update the client's A record, and will only ever
attempt to update the client's PTR record if the client supplies an
-FQDN that should be placed in the PTR record using the fqdn option.
+FQDN that should be placed in the PTR record using the \fBfqdn\fR option.
If forward updates are enabled, the DHCP server will still honor the
setting of the \fBclient-updates\fR flag.
.RE
@@ -2454,7 +2454,7 @@ This statement causes the DHCP server to listen for DHCP requests sent
to the specified \fIaddress\fR, rather than requests sent to all addresses.
Since serving directly attached DHCP clients implies that the server must
respond to requests sent to the all-ones IP address, this option cannot be
-used if clients are on directly attached networks...it is only realistically
+used if clients are on directly attached networks; it is only realistically
useful for a server whose only clients are reached via unicasts, such as via
DHCP relay agents.
.PP
@@ -2509,6 +2509,7 @@ Because the \fIlog-facility\fR setting is controlled by the dhcpd.conf
file, log messages printed while parsing the dhcpd.conf file or before
parsing it are logged to the default log facility. To prevent this,
see the README file included with this distribution, which describes
+BUG: where is that mentioned in README?
how to change the default log facility. When this parameter is used,
the DHCP server prints its startup message a second time after parsing
the configuration file, so that the log will be as complete as
diff --git a/server/dhcpd.leases.5 b/server/dhcpd.leases.5
index 4e2f67eb..e5d3d7cd 100644
--- a/server/dhcpd.leases.5
+++ b/server/dhcpd.leases.5
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ manual page.
.B The \fIddns-text\fB variable
.PP
The \fIddns-text\fR variable is used to record the value of the
-client's TXT identification record when the interim ddns update
+client's TXT identification record when the interim DDNS update
style has been used to update the DNS for a particular lease.
.PP
.B The \fIddns-fwd-name\fB variable
@@ -227,9 +227,9 @@ update the client's PTR record.
.PP
.B The \fIddns-client-fqdn\fB variable
.PP
-If the server is configured to use the interim ddns update style, and
-is also configured to allow clients to update their own fqdns, and the
-client did in fact update its own fqdn, then the
+If the server is configured to use the interim DDNS update style, and
+is also configured to allow clients to update their own FQDNs, and the
+client did in fact update its own FQDN, then the
\fIddns-client-fqdn\fR variable records the name that the client has
indicated it is using. This is the name that the server will have
used to update the client's PTR record in this case.