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authorChristian Poessinger <christian@poessinger.com>2021-10-13 09:32:14 +0200
committerChristian Poessinger <christian@poessinger.com>2021-10-13 09:34:26 +0200
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dns: improve CLI commands by adding missing parameters
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@@ -94,16 +94,19 @@ avoid being tracked by the provider of your upstream DNS server.
Maximum number of DNS cache entries. 1 million per CPU core will generally
suffice for most installations.
-.. cfgcmd:: set service dns forwarding negative-ttl
+ This defaults to 10000.
+
+.. cfgcmd:: set service dns forwarding negative-ttl <0-7200>
A query for which there is authoritatively no answer is cached to quickly
deny a record's existence later on, without putting a heavy load on the
remote server. In practice, caches can become saturated with hundreds of
- thousands of hosts which are tried only once. This setting, which defaults
- to 3600 seconds, puts a maximum on the amount of time negative entries are
- cached.
+ thousands of hosts which are tried only once.
+
+ This setting, which defaults to 3600 seconds, puts a maximum on the amount
+ of time negative entries are cached.
-.. cfgcmd:: set service dns forwarding listen-address
+.. cfgcmd:: set service dns forwarding listen-address <address>
The local IPv4 or IPv6 addresses to bind the DNS forwarder to. The forwarder
will listen on this address for incoming connections.