Package: dnsmasq Version: 2.23-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch
Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man8/dnsmasq.8.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Versions of packages dnsmasq depends on: ii libc6 2.3.5-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii netbase 4.23 Basic TCP/IP networking system dnsmasq recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
--- - 2005-10-30 01:12:51.829385000 -0400 +++ /tmp/dnsmasq8.gz.7387 2005-10-30 01:12:51.000000000 -0400 @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ .TP .B \-u, --user=<username> Specify the userid to which dnsmasq will change after startup. Dnsmasq must normally be started as root, but it will drop root -priviledges after startup by changing id to another user. Normally this user is "nobody" but that +privileges after startup by changing id to another user. Normally this user is "nobody" but that can be over-ridden with this switch. .TP .B \-g, --group=<groupname> @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ .TP .B \-y, --localise-queries Return answers to DNS queries from /etc/hosts which depend on the interface over which the query was -recieved. If a name in /etc/hosts has more than one address associated with +received. If a name in /etc/hosts has more than one address associated with it, and at least one of those addresses is on the same subnet as the interface to which the query was sent, then return only the address(es) on that subnet. This allows for a server to have multiple @@ -179,11 +179,11 @@ .B \-B, --bogus-nxdomain=<ipaddr> Transform replies which contain the IP address given into "No such domain" replies. This is intended to counteract a devious move made by -Versign in September 2003 when they started returning the address of +Verisign in September 2003 when they started returning the address of an advertising web page in response to queries for unregistered names, instead of the correct NXDOMAIN response. This option tells dnsmasq to fake the correct response when it sees this behaviour. As at Sept 2003 -the IP address being returnd by Verisign is 64.94.110.11 +the IP address being returned by Verisign is 64.94.110.11 .TP .B \-f, --filterwin2k Later versions of windows make periodic DNS requests which don't get sensible answers from @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ .B \-1, --enable-dbus Allow dnsmasq configuration to be updated via DBus method calls. The configuration which can be changed is upstream DNS servers (and -corressponding domains) and cache clear. Requires that dnsmasq has +corresponding domains) and cache clear. Requires that dnsmasq has been built with DBus support. .TP .B \-o, --strict-order @@ -333,13 +333,13 @@ in .B dhcp-host options. If the lease time is given, then leases -will be given for that length of time. The lease time is on seconds, +will be given for that length of time. The lease time is in seconds, or minutes (eg 45m) or hours (eg 1h) or the literal "infinite". This option may be repeated, with different addresses, to enable DHCP service to more than one network. For directly connected networks (ie, networks on which the machine running dnsmasq has an interface) the netmask is optional. It is, however, required for networks which -recieve DHCP service via a relay agent. The broadcast address is +receive DHCP service via a relay agent. The broadcast address is always optional. On some broken systems, dnsmasq can listen on only one interface when using DHCP, and the name of that interface must be given using the @@ -414,14 +414,14 @@ options containing the same information. .TP .B \-O, --dhcp-option=[<network-id>,[<network-id>,]][vendor:<vendor-class>]<opt>,[<value>[,<value>]] -Specfify different or extra options to DHCP clients. By default, +Specify different or extra options to DHCP clients. By default, dnsmasq sends some standard options to DHCP clients, the netmask and broadcast address are set to the same as the host running dnsmasq, and the DNS server and default route are set to the address of the machine running dnsmasq. If the domain name option has been set, that is sent. This option allows these defaults to be overridden, or other options specified. The <opt> is the number of the option, as -specfied in RFC2132. For example, to set the default route option to +specified in RFC2132. For example, to set the default route option to 192.168.4.4, do .B --dhcp-option=3,192.168.4.4 and to set the time-server address to 192.168.0.4, do @@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ persuade dnsmasq to generate illegal DHCP packets with injudicious use of this flag. When the value is a decimal number, dnsmasq must determine how large the data item is. It does this by examining the option number and/or the -value, but can be overriden by appending a single letter flag as follows: +value, but can be overridden by appending a single letter flag as follows: b = one byte, s = two bytes, i = four bytes. This is mainly useful with encapsulated vendor class options (see below) where dnsmasq cannot determine data size from the option number. Option data which @@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ process. .TP .B \-K, --dhcp-authoritative -Should be set when dnsmasq is definatively the only DHCP server on a network. +Should be set when dnsmasq is definitely the only DHCP server on a network. It changes the behaviour from strict RFC compliance so that DHCP requests on unknown leases from unknown hosts are not ignored. This allows new hosts to get a lease without a tedious timeout under all circumstances.
