Changeset 1328

Timestamp:

02/01/09 21:38:24 (4 years ago)

Author:

ahu

Message:

update documentation

Files:

• trunk/pdns/pdns/docs/pdns.sgml (modified) (10 diffs)

trunk/pdns/pdns/docs/pdns.sgml

@@ -93 +93 @@
         Beyond PowerDNS 2.9.20, the Authoritative Server and Recursor are released separately.
       </para>
-      <sect2 id="changelog-auth-2-9-22"><title>Authoritative Server version 2.9.22 (UNRELEASED)</title>
+      <sect2 id="changelog-auth-2-9-22"><title>Authoritative Server version 2.9.22</title>
         <para>
           <warning>
             <para>
-              UNRELEASED!
+              Released on the 27th of January 2009.
             </para>
           </warning>
         </para>
         <para>
-          This is a huge release, spanning almost 18 months of development. Besides fixing a lot of bugs, of note is the addition of the so called 'Notification Proxy',
+          This is a huge release, spanning almost 20 months of development. Besides fixing a lot of bugs, of note is the addition of the so called 'Notification Proxy',
           which allows PowerDNS to function as a master server behind a firewall, plus the huge performance improvement of the internal caches.
         </para>
@@ -109 +109 @@
         </para>
         <para>
-          Finally, the release candidates of this version have been tested &amp; improved by Jorn Ekkelenkamp, Ton van Rosmalen, Jeff Sipek, Tyler Hall, Christof Meerwald,
-          Stefan Schmidt, 
+          Finally, the release candidates of this version have been tested &amp; improved by Jorn Ekkelenkamp, Ton van Rosmalen, Jeff Sipek, Tyler Hall, Christof Meerwald and
+          Stefan Schmidt.
         </para>
         <para>
@@ -122 +122 @@
             <listitem>
               <para>
-                Negative query caching was reinstated, leading to 6 times less backend queries than rc1 on the Express.powerdns.com servers.
+                Negative query caching was reinstated, leading to 6 times fewer backend queries than rc1 on the Express.powerdns.com servers.
               </para>
             </listitem>
@@ -191 +191 @@
               </para>
             </listitem>
-            <listitem>
-              <para>
-                
-              </para>
-            </listitem>
-
           </itemizedlist>
         </para>
@@ -245 +239 @@
             <listitem>
               <para>
+                David Apgar of Yahoo discovered that our 'guardian' method of restarting PowerDNS in case of problems was not fool proof, and submitted a fix.
+                A variation of this fix can be found in c1323. Also reported by Directi.
+              </para>
+            </listitem>
+            
+            <listitem>
+              <para>
                 Connection reset by peer events in the TCP nameserver no longer lead to the cycling of database connections. Code in c1241.
               </para>
@@ -278 +279 @@
               <para>
                 Matti Hiljanen discovered that the OpenDBX backend did not fill out the SOA ttl value properly. Matti also improved the SQL statements
-                for better compatability. Implemented in c1181.
+                for better compatibility. Implemented in c1181.
               </para>
             </listitem>
@@ -380 +381 @@
             <listitem>
               <para>
+                No longer report temporary recvfrom errors, which used to spam the log on many systems. Addressed in c1320.
+              </para>
+            </listitem>
+            
+            <listitem>
+              <para>
                 Direct queries for 'fancy records' would lead to errors, such queries now fail early. Spotted by Jorn Ekkelenkamp, implemented in C1051.
               </para>
@@ -453 +460 @@
               <para>
                 Zone2sql now reads source files in performance enhancing inode order. Additionally, zone2sql no longer dies on a missing zone file if 
-                <command>--on-error-resume-next</command> was specified. Finally, statistics of zone2sql confersion have been improved. Implemented in C1055.
+                <command>--on-error-resume-next</command> was specified. Finally, statistics of zone2sql conversion have been improved. Implemented in C1055.
               </para>
             </listitem>
@@ -3989 +3996 @@
                 <command>pdns_control</command> now uses the rarely seen SOCK_STREAM Unix Domain socket variety so it can transport
                 large amounts of text, which is needed for the <command>bind-domain-status</command> command, for which see
-                <xref linkend="bind-control-commands">. This breaks compatability with older pdns_control and pdns_server binaries!
+                <xref linkend="bind-control-commands">. This breaks compatibility with older pdns_control and pdns_server binaries!
               </para>
             </listitem>
@@ -13064 +13071 @@
       </para>
       <para>
-        PDNS breaks strict RFC compatability by not always checking for the presence of a SOA record first. This is unlikely to lead to 
+        PDNS breaks strict RFC compatibility by not always checking for the presence of a SOA record first. This is unlikely to lead to 
         problems though.
       </para>