lwresd.html revision 89da2a56413ba6294315bdde04f7547b9d71b062
08baf8e4f38f6e5858b16e954e1841675cecae0cTimo Sirainen - Copyright (C) 2004 Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
08baf8e4f38f6e5858b16e954e1841675cecae0cTimo Sirainen - Copyright (C) 2000, 2001 Internet Software Consortium.
08baf8e4f38f6e5858b16e954e1841675cecae0cTimo Sirainen - Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
08baf8e4f38f6e5858b16e954e1841675cecae0cTimo Sirainen - purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
08baf8e4f38f6e5858b16e954e1841675cecae0cTimo Sirainen - copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.
08baf8e4f38f6e5858b16e954e1841675cecae0cTimo Sirainen - THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND ISC DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH
08baf8e4f38f6e5858b16e954e1841675cecae0cTimo Sirainen - REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY
e6e5e9c0309a48a1301577829fcebc5a83886705Timo Sirainen - AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL ISC BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT,
08baf8e4f38f6e5858b16e954e1841675cecae0cTimo Sirainen - INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM
08baf8e4f38f6e5858b16e954e1841675cecae0cTimo Sirainen - LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE
08baf8e4f38f6e5858b16e954e1841675cecae0cTimo Sirainen - OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
08baf8e4f38f6e5858b16e954e1841675cecae0cTimo Sirainen - PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
08baf8e4f38f6e5858b16e954e1841675cecae0cTimo Sirainen<!-- $Id: lwresd.html,v 1.10 2005/04/03 03:31:33 marka Exp $ -->
08baf8e4f38f6e5858b16e954e1841675cecae0cTimo Sirainen<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
08baf8e4f38f6e5858b16e954e1841675cecae0cTimo Sirainen>lwresd</TITLE
08baf8e4f38f6e5858b16e954e1841675cecae0cTimo SirainenNAME="GENERATOR"
08baf8e4f38f6e5858b16e954e1841675cecae0cTimo SirainenCONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"></HEAD
46b823ac3bce2c0f9f0fc73911e48d3a77b04fbeTimo SirainenCLASS="REFENTRY"
08baf8e4f38f6e5858b16e954e1841675cecae0cTimo SirainenBGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"
08baf8e4f38f6e5858b16e954e1841675cecae0cTimo SirainenTEXT="#000000"
08baf8e4f38f6e5858b16e954e1841675cecae0cTimo SirainenLINK="#0000FF"
08baf8e4f38f6e5858b16e954e1841675cecae0cTimo SirainenVLINK="#840084"
08baf8e4f38f6e5858b16e954e1841675cecae0cTimo SirainenALINK="#0000FF"
08baf8e4f38f6e5858b16e954e1841675cecae0cTimo SirainenCLASS="APPLICATION"
08baf8e4f38f6e5858b16e954e1841675cecae0cTimo SirainenCLASS="REFNAMEDIV"
08baf8e4f38f6e5858b16e954e1841675cecae0cTimo SirainenCLASS="APPLICATION"
08baf8e4f38f6e5858b16e954e1841675cecae0cTimo Sirainen> -- lightweight resolver daemon</DIV
08baf8e4f38f6e5858b16e954e1841675cecae0cTimo SirainenCLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV"
08baf8e4f38f6e5858b16e954e1841675cecae0cTimo SirainenCLASS="COMMAND"
08baf8e4f38f6e5858b16e954e1841675cecae0cTimo SirainenCLASS="OPTION"
08baf8e4f38f6e5858b16e954e1841675cecae0cTimo SirainenCLASS="REPLACEABLE"
08baf8e4f38f6e5858b16e954e1841675cecae0cTimo Sirainen>config-file</I
e6e5e9c0309a48a1301577829fcebc5a83886705Timo SirainenCLASS="OPTION"
e6e5e9c0309a48a1301577829fcebc5a83886705Timo SirainenCLASS="REPLACEABLE"
e6e5e9c0309a48a1301577829fcebc5a83886705Timo Sirainen>debug-level</I
e6e5e9c0309a48a1301577829fcebc5a83886705Timo SirainenCLASS="OPTION"
e6e5e9c0309a48a1301577829fcebc5a83886705Timo SirainenCLASS="OPTION"
e6e5e9c0309a48a1301577829fcebc5a83886705Timo SirainenCLASS="OPTION"
e6e5e9c0309a48a1301577829fcebc5a83886705Timo SirainenCLASS="REPLACEABLE"
e6e5e9c0309a48a1301577829fcebc5a83886705Timo SirainenCLASS="OPTION"
e6e5e9c0309a48a1301577829fcebc5a83886705Timo SirainenCLASS="REPLACEABLE"
e6e5e9c0309a48a1301577829fcebc5a83886705Timo SirainenCLASS="OPTION"
e6e5e9c0309a48a1301577829fcebc5a83886705Timo SirainenCLASS="REPLACEABLE"
e6e5e9c0309a48a1301577829fcebc5a83886705Timo SirainenCLASS="OPTION"
e6e5e9c0309a48a1301577829fcebc5a83886705Timo SirainenCLASS="REPLACEABLE"
e6e5e9c0309a48a1301577829fcebc5a83886705Timo SirainenCLASS="OPTION"
e6e5e9c0309a48a1301577829fcebc5a83886705Timo SirainenCLASS="OPTION"
e6e5e9c0309a48a1301577829fcebc5a83886705Timo SirainenCLASS="REPLACEABLE"
e6e5e9c0309a48a1301577829fcebc5a83886705Timo SirainenCLASS="OPTION"
e6e5e9c0309a48a1301577829fcebc5a83886705Timo SirainenCLASS="REPLACEABLE"
a39c48f798d9f73256524e87767080a8ad1df6b1Timo SirainenCLASS="OPTION"
a39c48f798d9f73256524e87767080a8ad1df6b1Timo SirainenCLASS="REFSECT1"
a39c48f798d9f73256524e87767080a8ad1df6b1Timo Sirainen>DESCRIPTION</H2
a39c48f798d9f73256524e87767080a8ad1df6b1Timo SirainenCLASS="COMMAND"
a39c48f798d9f73256524e87767080a8ad1df6b1Timo Sirainen> is the daemon providing name lookup
a39c48f798d9f73256524e87767080a8ad1df6b1Timo Sirainen services to clients that use the BIND 9 lightweight resolver
a39c48f798d9f73256524e87767080a8ad1df6b1Timo Sirainen library. It is essentially a stripped-down, caching-only name
a39c48f798d9f73256524e87767080a8ad1df6b1Timo Sirainen server that answers queries using the BIND 9 lightweight
a39c48f798d9f73256524e87767080a8ad1df6b1Timo Sirainen resolver protocol rather than the DNS protocol.
a39c48f798d9f73256524e87767080a8ad1df6b1Timo SirainenCLASS="COMMAND"
a39c48f798d9f73256524e87767080a8ad1df6b1Timo Sirainen> listens for resolver queries on a
a39c48f798d9f73256524e87767080a8ad1df6b1Timo Sirainen UDP port on the IPv4 loopback interface, 127.0.0.1. This
cd07d97b7da550b52d60e3020f64821f7e35ceaaTimo Sirainen means that <B
a39c48f798d9f73256524e87767080a8ad1df6b1Timo SirainenCLASS="COMMAND"
a39c48f798d9f73256524e87767080a8ad1df6b1Timo Sirainen> can only be used by
a39c48f798d9f73256524e87767080a8ad1df6b1Timo Sirainen processes running on the local machine. By default UDP port
a39c48f798d9f73256524e87767080a8ad1df6b1Timo Sirainen number 921 is used for lightweight resolver requests and
e6e5e9c0309a48a1301577829fcebc5a83886705Timo Sirainen> Incoming lightweight resolver requests are decoded by the
e6e5e9c0309a48a1301577829fcebc5a83886705Timo Sirainen server which then resolves them using the DNS protocol. When
e6e5e9c0309a48a1301577829fcebc5a83886705Timo Sirainen the DNS lookup completes, <B
e6e5e9c0309a48a1301577829fcebc5a83886705Timo SirainenCLASS="COMMAND"
> Run the server in the foreground (i.e. do not daemonize).