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1 | INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS for ADNS |
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3 | 1. Read the security note below. |
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5 | 2. Standard GNU package build process: |
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6 | $ ./configure |
7 | $ make |
8 | # make install |
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10 | Unfortunately, since this is a beta, there is no good documentation |
11 | yet. For now, use the comments in the public header file adns.h. |
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14 | You will find that adns requires a reasonably standard and up to date |
15 | system. |
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17 | In particular, the build system assumes that you have ELF shared |
18 | libraries. If you don't then please don't send me patches to support |
19 | your kind of shared libraries, and don't send me patches to use |
20 | libtool. I'm not interested in supporting non-ELF shared libraries. |
21 | However, if you send me an appropriate patch I'd be willing to make it |
22 | easy or automatic to disable the ELF shared library arrangements. |
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24 | The adnsresfilter utility uses `tsearch' from the C library (a la SVID |
25 | and X/Open). If your C library doesn't have tsearch you will find |
26 | that configure arranges for adnsresfilter not to be built. To rectify |
27 | this, install a C library containing tsearch, such as the GNU C |
28 | library. It is best if tsearch uses an automatically-balancing tree |
29 | algorithm, like the glibc version does. Simple binary trees may |
30 | perform badly. |
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32 | You will probably find that GNU Make is required. |
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35 | SECURITY AND PERFORMANCE - AN IMPORTANT NOTE |
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37 | adns is not a full-service resolver. It does no caching of responses |
38 | at all, and has no defence against bad nameservers or fake packets |
39 | which appear to come from your real nameservers. It relies on the |
40 | full-service resolvers listed in resolv.conf to handle these tasks. |
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42 | For secure and reasonable operation you MUST run a full-service |
43 | nameserver on the same system as your adns applications, or on the |
44 | same local, fully trusted network. You MUST only list such |
45 | nameservers in the adns configuration (eg resolv.conf). |
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47 | You MUST use a firewall or other means to block packets which appear |
48 | to come from these nameservers, but which were actually sent by other, |
49 | untrusted, entities. |
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51 | Furthermore, adns is not DNSSEC-aware in this version; it doesn't |
52 | understand even how to ask a DNSSEC-aware nameserver to perform the |
53 | DNSSEC cryptographic signature checking. |
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56 | COPYRIGHT |
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58 | This file, INSTALL, contains installation instructions and other |
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59 | details for adns. It is |
60 | Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> |
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62 | adns is |
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63 | Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> |
64 | Copyright (C) 1999 Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> [1] |
65 | Copyright (C) 1991 Massachusetts Institute of Technology [2] |
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67 | adns is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under |
68 | the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free |
69 | Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your |
70 | option) any later version. |
71 | |
72 | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but |
73 | WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
74 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU |
75 | General Public License for more details. |
76 | |
77 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
78 | along with userv as the file COPYING; if not, email me at the address |
79 | above or write to the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - |
80 | Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. |
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82 | [1] Tony Finch holds the original copyright on |
83 | client/adnslogres.c and client/fanftest.c. |
84 | [2] MIT hold the original copyright on the included install-sh, |
85 | which came via GNU autoconf. |
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87 | # Local variables: |
88 | # mode: text |
89 | # End: |