From: Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 02:13:50 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: Release notes for multicast DNS support
X-Git-Tag: SQUID_3_4_0_1~7
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7fcd7c3f94ed97513711f02eb695e9e81dbb74a9;p=thirdparty%2Fsquid.git

Release notes for multicast DNS support
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diff --git a/doc/release-notes/release-3.4.html b/doc/release-notes/release-3.4.html
index e621b84291..f125d1faa4 100644
--- a/doc/release-notes/release-3.4.html
+++ b/doc/release-notes/release-3.4.html
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ for Applied Network Research and members of the Web Caching community.</EM>
 <LI><A NAME="toc2.3">2.3</A> <A HREF="#ss2.3">Store-ID</A>
 <LI><A NAME="toc2.4">2.4</A> <A HREF="#ss2.4">TPROXY Support for OpenBSD 5.1+ and FreeBSD 9+</A>
 <LI><A NAME="toc2.5">2.5</A> <A HREF="#ss2.5">Transaction Annotations</A>
+<LI><A NAME="toc2.6">2.6</A> <A HREF="#ss2.6">Multicast DNS</A>
 </UL>
 <P>
 <H2><A NAME="toc3">3.</A> <A HREF="#s3">Changes to squid.conf since Squid-3.3</A></H2>
@@ -89,6 +90,7 @@ for how to submit a report with a stack trace.</P>
 <LI>Store-ID</LI>
 <LI>TPROXY Support for OpenBSD 5.1+ and FreeBSD 9+</LI>
 <LI>Transaction Annotations</LI>
+<LI>Multicast DNS</LI>
 </UL>
 </P>
 <P>Most user-facing changes are reflected in squid.conf (see below).</P>
@@ -238,6 +240,22 @@ of for any notes with a given name.</P>
 and the external ACL interface does not yet send annotations to the helper.</P>
 
 
+<H2><A NAME="ss2.6">2.6</A> <A HREF="#toc2.6">Multicast DNS</A>
+</H2>
+
+<P>The internal DNS component fof Squid now supports multicast DNS (mDNS) resolution in
+accordance with RFC 6762.</P>
+
+<P>There is no additional or special configuration required. The multicast DNS group IP
+addresses for IPv4 and IPv6 resolving are added to the set of available DNS resolvers
+and used automatically for domain names ending in <EM>.local</EM> before attempting a
+secondary resolution on the configured resolvers. Domains without <EM>.local</EM> are
+resolved using only the configured DNS resolvers.</P>
+
+<P>Statistics for multicast DNS resolution can be found on the <EM>idns</EM> cache manager
+report.</P>
+
+
 <H2><A NAME="s3">3.</A> <A HREF="#toc3">Changes to squid.conf since Squid-3.3</A></H2>
 
 <P>There have been changes to Squid's configuration file since Squid-3.3.</P>
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/release-3.4.sgml b/doc/release-notes/release-3.4.sgml
index 7efb41b1bc..2bbce2bcf5 100644
--- a/doc/release-notes/release-3.4.sgml
+++ b/doc/release-notes/release-3.4.sgml
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ The 3.4 change history can be <url url="http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3
 	<item>Store-ID
 	<item>TPROXY Support for OpenBSD 5.1+ and FreeBSD 9+
 	<item>Transaction Annotations
+	<item>Multicast DNS
 </itemize>
 
 Most user-facing changes are reflected in squid.conf (see below).
@@ -175,6 +176,20 @@ Most user-facing changes are reflected in squid.conf (see below).
 	 and the external ACL interface does not yet send annotations to the helper.
 
 
+<sect1>Multicast DNS
+<p>The internal DNS component fof Squid now supports multicast DNS (mDNS) resolution in
+    accordance with RFC 6762.
+
+<p>There is no additional or special configuration required. The multicast DNS group IP
+   addresses for IPv4 and IPv6 resolving are added to the set of available DNS resolvers
+   and used automatically for domain names ending in <em>.local</em> before attempting a
+   secondary resolution on the configured resolvers. Domains without <em>.local</em> are
+   resolved using only the configured DNS resolvers.
+
+<p>Statistics for multicast DNS resolution can be found on the <em>idns</em> cache manager
+   report.
+
+
 <sect>Changes to squid.conf since Squid-3.3
 <p>
 There have been changes to Squid's configuration file since Squid-3.3.