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Various minor documentation improvements:
remove repeated words fix: it's to its some minor formatting added (this needs to be improved still, there is a mix of \fB Bold and \fI underline for same things) spelling fixes minor punctuation fixes (remove ...) uppercase an acronym that is not a config item (I didn't get this reviewed, these all are very minor or obvious.)
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@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ automatically before installing it.
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.BI \-T
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Test the lease file. The server tests the lease file
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for correct syntax, but will not attempt to perform any network
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operations. This can be used to test a new leaes file
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operations. This can be used to test a new lease file
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automatically before installing it.
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.TP
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.BI \-tf \ tracefile
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@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ Print version number and exit.
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.I Modifying default file locations:
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The following options can be used to modify the locations
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.B dhcpd
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uses for it's files. Because of the importance of using the same
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uses for its files. Because of the importance of using the same
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lease database at all times when running dhcpd in production, these
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options should be used \fBonly\fR for testing lease files or database
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files in a non-production environment.
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@@ -780,7 +780,7 @@ The Failover pool balance statements.
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This version of the DHCP Server evaluates pool balance on a schedule,
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rather than on demand as leases are allocated. The latter approach
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proved to be slightly klunky when pool misbalanced reach total
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saturation...when any server ran out of leases to assign, it also lost
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saturation \(em when any server ran out of leases to assign, it also lost
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its ability to notice it had run dry.
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.PP
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In order to understand pool balance, some elements of its operation
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@@ -1228,12 +1228,12 @@ IP address, it can update its own A record, assuming that the
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.PP
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If the server is configured not to allow client updates, or if the
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client doesn't want to do its own update, the server will simply
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choose a name for the client from either the fqdn option (if present)
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choose a name for the client from either the \fBfqdn\fR option (if present)
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or the hostname option (if present). It will use its own
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domain name for the client, just as in the ad-hoc update scheme.
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It will then update both the A and PTR record, using the name that it
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chose for the client. If the client sends a fully-qualified domain
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name in the fqdn option, the server uses only the leftmost part of the
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name in the \fBfqdn\fR option, the server uses only the leftmost part of the
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domain name - in the example above, "jschmoe" instead of
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"jschmoe.radish.org".
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.PP
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@@ -2051,7 +2051,7 @@ The \fIddns-hostname\fR statement
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.B ddns-hostname \fIname\fB;\fR
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.PP
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The \fIname\fR parameter should be the hostname that will be used in
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setting up the client's A and PTR records. If no ddns-hostname is
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setting up the client's A and PTR records. If no \fIddns-hostname\fR is
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specified in scope, then the server will derive the hostname
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automatically, using an algorithm that varies for each of the
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different update methods.
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@@ -2199,7 +2199,7 @@ set to \fBinterim\fR. Forward updates are enabled by default. If
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this statement is used to disable forward updates, the DHCP server
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will never attempt to update the client's A record, and will only ever
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attempt to update the client's PTR record if the client supplies an
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FQDN that should be placed in the PTR record using the fqdn option.
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FQDN that should be placed in the PTR record using the \fBfqdn\fR option.
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If forward updates are enabled, the DHCP server will still honor the
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setting of the \fBclient-updates\fR flag.
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.RE
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@@ -2454,7 +2454,7 @@ This statement causes the DHCP server to listen for DHCP requests sent
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to the specified \fIaddress\fR, rather than requests sent to all addresses.
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Since serving directly attached DHCP clients implies that the server must
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respond to requests sent to the all-ones IP address, this option cannot be
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used if clients are on directly attached networks...it is only realistically
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used if clients are on directly attached networks; it is only realistically
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useful for a server whose only clients are reached via unicasts, such as via
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DHCP relay agents.
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.PP
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@@ -2509,6 +2509,7 @@ Because the \fIlog-facility\fR setting is controlled by the dhcpd.conf
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file, log messages printed while parsing the dhcpd.conf file or before
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parsing it are logged to the default log facility. To prevent this,
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see the README file included with this distribution, which describes
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BUG: where is that mentioned in README?
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how to change the default log facility. When this parameter is used,
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the DHCP server prints its startup message a second time after parsing
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the configuration file, so that the log will be as complete as
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.B The \fIddns-text\fB variable
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.PP
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The \fIddns-text\fR variable is used to record the value of the
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client's TXT identification record when the interim ddns update
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client's TXT identification record when the interim DDNS update
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style has been used to update the DNS for a particular lease.
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.PP
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.B The \fIddns-fwd-name\fB variable
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@@ -227,9 +227,9 @@ update the client's PTR record.
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.PP
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.B The \fIddns-client-fqdn\fB variable
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.PP
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If the server is configured to use the interim ddns update style, and
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is also configured to allow clients to update their own fqdns, and the
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client did in fact update its own fqdn, then the
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If the server is configured to use the interim DDNS update style, and
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is also configured to allow clients to update their own FQDNs, and the
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client did in fact update its own FQDN, then the
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\fIddns-client-fqdn\fR variable records the name that the client has
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indicated it is using. This is the name that the server will have
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used to update the client's PTR record in this case.
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