From 7770edd7037180c4a49771beb89519874a650668 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: brain Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 18:46:24 +0000 Subject: Two things, document how InspIRCd finds the dns server ip on windows if you don't specify one, and have win32 default to 127.0.0.1 for dns queries in the very unlikely chance you have no network interfaces active. git-svn-id: http://svn.inspircd.org/repository/trunk/inspircd@7129 e03df62e-2008-0410-955e-edbf42e46eb7 --- docs/inspircd.conf.example | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/inspircd.conf.example') diff --git a/docs/inspircd.conf.example b/docs/inspircd.conf.example index 7f8822d8f..080fa3a6e 100644 --- a/docs/inspircd.conf.example +++ b/docs/inspircd.conf.example @@ -599,10 +599,14 @@ #-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-# DNS SERVER -#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-# # # # Define your DNS server address here. InspIRCd has its own resolver. # -# If you do not define this value, the first dns server from your # -# /etc/resolv.conf file is read. If no entries are found in this file # -# or the file cannot be opened, the default value '127.0.0.1' is used # -# instead. The timeout value is in seconds. # +# If you do not define this value, then then InspIRCd will attempt to # +# determine your DNS server from your operating system. On POSIX # +# platforms, InspIRCd will read /etc/resolv.conf, and populate this # +# value with the first DNS server address found. On Windows platforms # +# InspIRCd will check the registry, and use the DNS server of the # +# first active network interface, if one exists. # +# If a DNS server cannot be determined from these checks, the default # +# value '127.0.0.1' is used instead. The timeout value is in seconds. # # # # ____ _ _____ _ _ ____ _ _ _ # # | _ \ ___ __ _ __| | |_ _| |__ (_)___ | __ )(_) |_| | # -- cgit v1.2.3