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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2016-06-26 17:35:22 +0200
committerMartin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>2016-06-26 17:35:22 +0200
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treec7c97f4d0f5ffe069d511224365cb57b7bf0459a /man/systemd-resolve.xml
parent71c14010dfa915644806429845bfb6118f7422ef (diff)
man: document what Authenticated: in the systemd-resolve output actually means (#3571)
My educated guess is that #3561 was filed due to confusion around the systemd-resolve "Data Authenticated:" output. Let's try to clean up the confusion a bit, and document what it means in the man page.
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and IPv6 addresses. If the parameters specified are formatted as IPv4 or IPv6 operation the reverse operation is
done, and a hostname is retrieved for the specified addresses.</para>
+ <para>The program's output contains information about the protocol used for the look-up and on which network
+ interface the data was discovered. It also contains information on whether the information could be
+ authenticated. All data for which local DNSSEC validation succeeds is considered authenticated. Moreover all data
+ originating from local, trusted sources is also reported authenticated, including resolution of the local host
+ name, the <literal>localhost</literal> host name or all data from <filename>/etc/hosts</filename>.</para>
+
<para>The <option>--type=</option> switch may be used to specify a DNS resource record type (A, AAAA, SOA, MX, ...) in
order to request a specific DNS resource record, instead of the address or reverse address lookups.
The special value <literal>help</literal> may be used to list known values.</para>