From 93cf5305346723f3531c83c671d4064d64ebf543 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tarnatos Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 10:41:56 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] made upstream server description more general --- docs/features/dns-cache.rst | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/features/dns-cache.rst b/docs/features/dns-cache.rst index ee066c69..e05b960c 100644 --- a/docs/features/dns-cache.rst +++ b/docs/features/dns-cache.rst @@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ between node and gateway as small as possible. In order to do this, a dns-cache may be used on a node. The dnsmasq instance listening on port 53 on the node will be reconfigured to answer requests, use a list of upstream servers and a specific cache size if the options listed below are -added to site.conf. Upstream servers normally are the community's gateways. +added to site.conf. Upstream servers are the DNS servers which are normally +used by the nodes to resolve hostnames (e.g. gateways/supernodes). If they are set the node will cache as much DNS records as set with 'cacheentries' in RAM. All settings are optional, though if no dns server is set, the configuration will not be altered by gluon-core.