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[master] improve auth and resolver man pages

mention some defaults

Remove sendstats and document getstats.

Document internal start_ddns_forwarder and stop_ddns_forwarder.

Add extra SEE ALSO.

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Jeremy C. Reed 12 years ago
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  1. 36 8
      src/bin/auth/b10-auth.xml
  2. 3 1
      src/bin/resolver/b10-resolver.xml

+ 36 - 8
src/bin/auth/b10-auth.xml

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 <refentry>
 
   <refentryinfo>
-    <date>June 20, 2012</date>
+    <date>December 18, 2012</date>
   </refentryinfo>
 
   <refmeta>
@@ -157,6 +157,7 @@
       incoming TCP connections, in milliseconds. If the query
       is not sent within this time, the connection is closed.
       Setting this to 0 will disable TCP timeouts completely.
+      The default is 5000 (five seconds).
     </para>
 
 <!-- TODO: formating -->
@@ -165,6 +166,15 @@
     </para>
 
     <para>
+      <command>getstats</command> tells <command>b10-auth</command>
+      to report its defined statistics data in JSON format.
+      It will not report about unused counters.
+      This is used by the
+      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>b10-stats</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> daemon.
+      (The <command>sendstats</command> command is deprecated.)
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
       <command>loadzone</command> tells <command>b10-auth</command>
       to load or reload a zone file. The arguments include:
       <varname>class</varname> which optionally defines the class
@@ -181,13 +191,6 @@
     </para>
 
     <para>
-      <command>sendstats</command> tells <command>b10-auth</command>
-      to send its statistics data to
-      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>b10-stats</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
-      immediately.
-    </para>
-
-    <para>
       <command>shutdown</command> exits <command>b10-auth</command>.
       This has an optional <varname>pid</varname> argument to
       select the process ID to stop.
@@ -195,6 +198,28 @@
       if configured.)
     </para>
 
+    <para>
+      <command>start_ddns_forwarder</command> starts (or restarts) the
+      internal forwarding of DDNS Update messages.
+      This is used by the
+      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>b10-ddns</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+      daemon to tell <command>b10-auth</command> that DDNS Update
+      messages can be forwarded.
+      <note><simpara>This is not expected to be called by administrators;
+        it will be removed as a public command in the future.</simpara></note>
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      <command>stop_ddns_forwarder</command> stops the internal
+      forwarding of DDNS Update messages.
+      This is used by the
+      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>b10-ddns</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+      daemon to tell <command>b10-auth</command> that DDNS Update
+      messages should not be forwarded.
+      <note><simpara>This is not expected to be called by administrators;
+        it will be removed as a public command in the future.</simpara></note>
+    </para>
+
   </refsect1>
 
   <refsect1>
@@ -244,6 +269,9 @@
         <refentrytitle>b10-cfgmgr</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
       </citerefentry>,
       <citerefentry>
+        <refentrytitle>b10-ddns</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
+      </citerefentry>,
+      <citerefentry>
         <refentrytitle>b10-loadzone</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
       </citerefentry>,
       <citerefentry>

+ 3 - 1
src/bin/resolver/b10-resolver.xml

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 <refentry>
 
   <refentryinfo>
-    <date>February 28, 2012</date>
+    <date>August 16, 2012</date>
   </refentryinfo>
 
   <refmeta>
@@ -148,6 +148,8 @@ once that is merged you can for instance do 'config add Resolver/forward_address
       address or special keyword.
       The <varname>key</varname> is a TSIG key name.
       The default configuration accepts queries from 127.0.0.1 and ::1.
+      The default action is REJECT for newly added
+      <varname>query_acl</varname> items.
     </para>
 
     <para>