From: Rich Bowen <rbowen@apache.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:17:46 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: core: Fix ServerName docs — used with UseCanonicalName On, not DNS (Bug 65092)
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core: Fix ServerName docs — used with UseCanonicalName On, not DNS (Bug 65092)

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@1933547 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/core.xml b/docs/manual/mod/core.xml
index 0c49a56fc9..2fc68abe9c 100644
--- a/docs/manual/mod/core.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/mod/core.xml
@@ -4599,9 +4599,10 @@ itself</description>
     href="../vhosts/name-based.html">name-based virtual hosts</a>.</p>
 
     <p>Additionally, this is used when
-    creating self-referential redirection URLs when 
-    <directive module="core">UseCanonicalName</directive> is set to a non-default
-    value.</p>
+    creating self-referential redirection URLs when
+    <directive module="core">UseCanonicalName</directive> is set to
+    <code>On</code>. When <code>UseCanonicalName</code> is set to
+    <code>DNS</code>, a reverse DNS lookup is used instead.</p>
 
     <p>For example, if the name of the
     machine hosting the web server is <code>simple.example.com</code>,