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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2016-06-26 17:35:22 +0200 |
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| committer | Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> | 2016-06-26 17:35:22 +0200 |
| commit | cdfe156acdf159341cf7771b019f1aa08a19acac (patch) | |
| tree | c7c97f4d0f5ffe069d511224365cb57b7bf0459a /man/systemd-resolve.xml | |
| parent | 71c14010dfa915644806429845bfb6118f7422ef (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.
Diffstat (limited to 'man/systemd-resolve.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/systemd-resolve.xml | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd-resolve.xml b/man/systemd-resolve.xml index b7fbee3154..ca26bb4d49 100644 --- a/man/systemd-resolve.xml +++ b/man/systemd-resolve.xml @@ -114,6 +114,12 @@ 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> |