[deployment-guide/comm-rel: 283/727] Updated the chapter introduction.

Jaromir Hradilek jhradile at fedoraproject.org
Tue Oct 19 12:48:23 UTC 2010


commit 1c3abc3391bae547c3c681eddf63e1fc797db5ce
Author: Jaromir Hradilek <jhradile at redhat.com>
Date:   Mon Aug 9 13:02:29 2010 +0200

    Updated the chapter introduction.

 en-US/The_BIND_DNS_Server.xml |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/en-US/The_BIND_DNS_Server.xml b/en-US/The_BIND_DNS_Server.xml
index 55058c9..7197ea6 100644
--- a/en-US/The_BIND_DNS_Server.xml
+++ b/en-US/The_BIND_DNS_Server.xml
@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@
     <secondary>introducing</secondary>
   </indexterm>
   <para>
-    On most modern networks, including the Internet, users locate other computers by name. This frees users from the daunting task of remembering the numerical network address of network resources. The most effective way to configure a network to allow such name-based connections is to set up a <firstterm>Domain Name Service</firstterm> (<firstterm>DNS</firstterm>) or a <firstterm>nameserver</firstterm>, which resolves hostnames on the network to numerical addresses and vice versa.
+    <systemitem class="protocol">DNS</systemitem> (Domain Name System), also known as a <firstterm>nameserver</firstterm>, is a network system that associates hostnames with their respective IP adresses. For users, this has the advantage that they can refer to machines on the network by names that are usually easier to remember than the numerical network adresses. For system administrators, using the nameserver allows them to change the IP adress for a host without ever affecting the name-based queries, or to decide which machines handle these queries.
   </para>
   <para>
-    This chapter reviews the nameserver included in &MAJOROS; and the <firstterm>Berkeley Internet Name Domain</firstterm> (<firstterm>BIND</firstterm>) DNS server, with an emphasis on the structure of its configuration files and how it may be administered both locally and remotely.
+    This chapter covers <systemitem class="service">BIND</systemitem> (Berkeley Internet Name Domain), the DNS server included in &MAJOROS;. It focuses on the structure of its configuration files, and describes how to administer it both locally and remotely.
   </para>
   <note>
     <title>Note</title>


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