From ca034738331f3f62bb653a202171f77f44c44b65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "fredrik@DOLDA2000.COM" Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:53:07 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Replaced UTF-8 en-dashes with ASCII hyphens. git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.dolda2000.com/srv/svn/repos/src/icmp-dn@294 959494ce-11ee-0310-bf91-de5d638817bd --- README | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 8db08ce..b2d8b65 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -4,14 +4,14 @@ Since the Linux kernel does not support the ICMP host name facilities as described in RFC 1788, I wrote a simple implementation in user-space. It comprises three parts: - * icmpdnd – The ICMP Domain Name daemon, which listens to ICMP + * icmpdnd - The ICMP Domain Name daemon, which listens to ICMP domain name requests and replies to them. - * idnlookup – A user utility to query a host for its host name over + * idnlookup - A user utility to query a host for its host name over ICMP. Like ping and all other utilities that use ICMP, it needs to be installed SUID root. - * libnss_icmp.so.2 – A glibc NSS module, which uses idnlookup to + * libnss_icmp.so.2 - A glibc NSS module, which uses idnlookup to perform queries for the gethostbyaddr function. General information @@ -20,10 +20,10 @@ The NSS module caches all requests (including failures) and honors the TTL value sent by the responding host. It uses a configuration file called /etc/nss-icmp.conf, which controls different aspects of its operation: - * timeout – Sets the timeout in milliseconds for ICMP host name + * timeout - Sets the timeout in milliseconds for ICMP host name queries, by passing the -t option to idnlookup. - * nocache – Disables the cache. - * ttlnotfound – Sets the TTL for not-found cache entries is + * nocache - Disables the cache. + * ttlnotfound - Sets the TTL for not-found cache entries is seconds. The default is 5 minutes. Both icmpdnd and idnlookup need to run as root, due to the fact that -- 2.11.0