NSsync README Copyright (C) 2011, 2012 Sergey Poznyakoff See the end of file for copying conditions. * Introduction This file contains a brief information about configuring, testing and running Nssync. It is *not* intended as a replacement for the documentation, but is provided as a brief reference only. The complete documentation for Nssync is available in doc/ subdirectory. To read it without installing the package run `info -f doc/nssync.info'. After the package is installed the documentation can be accessed by running `info nssync'. An online copy of the documentation in various formats is available at . * Overview BIND, the most frequently used DNS server, normally keeps its zone data in plain text files. This approach becomes inconvenient when the number of zones grows beyond a certain limit. When this happens, the obvious solution is to move all data to a database and make named read it from there, and the recent versions of BIND are able to do so by using dynamically loadable zones (DLZ). However, DLZ has problems of its own, one of them being that it is unable to propagate glue records. The nssync utility provides an alternative solution, which makes it possible to keep your zone data in an SQL database without using DLZ and with glue records working. It does so by periodically polling the database to determine which data have recently changed and converting the database into BIND zone files. * Download Recent version of the package can be downloaded from anonymous . Download over HTTP is provided as well (replace ftp: in the link above with http:). For more information, please see . * Bug reporting. Send bug reports to . * Copyright information: Copyright (C) 2011, 2012 Sergey Poznyakoff Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved, thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn. Permission is granted to distribute modified versions of this document, or of portions of it, under the above conditions, provided also that they carry prominent notices stating who last changed them. Local Variables: mode: outline paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" version-control: never End: