diff --git a/docs/features/dns-cache.rst b/docs/features/dns-cache.rst index 985b65c0..65119b5b 100644 --- a/docs/features/dns-cache.rst +++ b/docs/features/dns-cache.rst @@ -6,21 +6,11 @@ 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 are the DNS servers which are normally -used by the nodes to resolve hostnames (e.g. gateways/supernodes). +added to site.conf. All settings are optional, though if no dns server is +set, the configuration will not be altered by gluon-core. -There are the following settings: - servers - cacheentries - -If both options are set the node will cache as much DNS records as set with -'cacheentries' in RAM. The 'servers' list will be used to resolve the received -DNS-queries if the request cannot be answered from cache. -If these settings do not exist, the cache is not intialized and RAM-usage will not increase. - -When next_node.name is set, an A-record and an AAAA-record for the -next-node-IP are placed in the dnsmasq configuration. This means that the content -of next_node.name may be resolved even without upstream connectivity. +Besides caching dns requests from clients, the next_node-addresses are set to +resolve to a configurable name that may optionally be placed in next_node.name. ::