From: W.C.A. Wijngaards Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 13:24:37 +0000 (+0100) Subject: - Fix to describe auth-zone and other configuration at the local-zone X-Git-Tag: release-1.16.0rc1~24 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9484ddee2e156a014b7b5728eb958240bcc6d643;p=thirdparty%2Funbound.git - Fix to describe auth-zone and other configuration at the local-zone configuration option, to allow for more broadly view of the options. --- diff --git a/doc/Changelog b/doc/Changelog index 8b885b83c..1ea3bc23a 100644 --- a/doc/Changelog +++ b/doc/Changelog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +17 March 2022: Wouter + - Fix to describe auth-zone and other configuration at the local-zone + configuration option, to allow for more broadly view of the options. + 16 March 2022: Wouter - Fix to ensure uniform handling of spaces and tabs when parsing RRs. diff --git a/doc/unbound.conf.5.in b/doc/unbound.conf.5.in index 1899ae6f3..294cd23d8 100644 --- a/doc/unbound.conf.5.in +++ b/doc/unbound.conf.5.in @@ -1329,7 +1329,17 @@ are authoritative DNS answers. By default the zones are class IN. .IP If you need more complicated authoritative data, with referrals, wildcards, CNAME/DNAME support, or DNSSEC authoritative service, setup a stub\-zone for -it as detailed in the stub zone section below. +it as detailed in the stub zone section below. A stub\-zone can be used to +have unbound send queries to another server, an authoritative server, to +fetch the information. With a forward\-zone, unbound sends queries to a server +that is a recursive server to fetch the information. With an auth\-zone a +zone can be loaded from file and used, it can be used like a local\-zone +for users downstream, or the auth\-zone information can be used to fetch +information from when resolving like it is an upstream server. The +forward\-zone and auth\-zone options are described in their sections below. +If you want to perform filtering of the information that the users can fetch, +the local\-zone and local\-data statements allow for this, but also the +rpz functionality can be used, described in the RPZ section. .TP 10 \h'5'\fIdeny\fR Do not send an answer, drop the query.