INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS for ADNS
+1. Read the security note below.
+
+2. Standard GNU package build process:
$ ./configure
$ make
# make install
You will probably find that GNU Make is required.
+SECURITY AND PERFORMANCE - AN IMPORTANT NOTE
+
+adns is not a full-service resolver. It does no caching of responses
+at all, and has no defence against bad nameservers or fake packets
+which appear to come from your real nameservers. It relies on the
+full-service resolvers listed in resolv.conf to handle these tasks.
+
+For secure and reasonable operation you MUST run a full-service
+nameserver on the same system as your adns applications, or on the
+same local, fully trusted network. You MUST only list such
+nameservers in the adns configuration (eg resolv.conf).
+
+You MUST use a firewall or other means to block packets which appear
+to come from these nameservers, but which were actually sent by other,
+untrusted, entities.
+
+Furthermore, adns is not DNSSEC-aware in this version; it doesn't
+understand even how to ask a DNSSEC-aware nameserver to perform the
+DNSSEC cryptographic signature checking.
+
+
COPYRIGHT
This file, INSTALL, contains installation instructions and other
-details for adns.
+details for adns. It is
+ Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>
adns is
- Copyright (C) 1997-1999 Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>
- Copyright (C) 1999 Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
+ Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>
+ Copyright (C) 1999 Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> [1]
+ Copyright (C) 1991 Massachusetts Institute of Technology [2]
adns is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
above or write to the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place -
Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+[1] Tony Finch holds the original copyright on
+ client/adnslogres.c and client/fanftest.c.
+[2] MIT hold the original copyright on the included install-sh,
+ which came via GNU autoconf.
+
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