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index 1285c43..028f0fc 100644
--- a/contrib/bind9/bin/dig/dig.docbook
+++ b/contrib/bind9/bin/dig/dig.docbook
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd"
[<!ENTITY mdash "&#8212;">]>
<!--
- - Copyright (C) 2004-2010, 2013 Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
+ - Copyright (C) 2004-2011, 2013 Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
- Copyright (C) 2000-2003 Internet Software Consortium.
-
- Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
- PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
-->
-<!-- $Id: dig.docbook,v 1.47 2010/03/04 23:50:34 tbox Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: dig.docbook,v 1.51 2011/11/04 11:02:50 jreed Exp $ -->
<refentry id="man.dig">
<refentryinfo>
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
<year>2008</year>
<year>2009</year>
<year>2010</year>
+ <year>2011</year>
<year>2013</year>
<holder>Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")</holder>
</copyright>
@@ -467,7 +468,8 @@
policy of the server. AD=1 indicates that all records
have been validated as secure and the answer is not
from a OPT-OUT range. AD=0 indicate that some part
- of the answer was insecure or not validated.
+ of the answer was insecure or not validated. This
+ bit is set by default.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -504,19 +506,17 @@
<varlistentry>
<term><option>+[no]recurse</option></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Toggle the setting of the RD (recursion desired) bit in the
- query.
- This bit is set by default, which means <command>dig</command>
- normally sends recursive queries. Recursion is automatically
- disabled
- when the <parameter>+nssearch</parameter> or
- <parameter>+trace</parameter> query options are
- used.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Toggle the setting of the RD (recursion desired) bit
+ in the query. This bit is set by default, which means
+ <command>dig</command> normally sends recursive
+ queries. Recursion is automatically disabled when
+ the <parameter>+nssearch</parameter> or
+ <parameter>+trace</parameter> query options are used.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>+[no]nssearch</option></term>
@@ -536,20 +536,21 @@
<varlistentry>
<term><option>+[no]trace</option></term>
<listitem>
- <para>
- Toggle tracing of the delegation path from the root name servers
- for
- the name being looked up. Tracing is disabled by default. When
- tracing is enabled, <command>dig</command> makes
- iterative queries to
- resolve the name being looked up. It will follow referrals from
- the
- root servers, showing the answer from each server that was used
- to
- resolve the lookup.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
+ <para>
+ Toggle tracing of the delegation path from the root
+ name servers for the name being looked up. Tracing
+ is disabled by default. When tracing is enabled,
+ <command>dig</command> makes iterative queries to
+ resolve the name being looked up. It will follow
+ referrals from the root servers, showing the answer
+ from each server that was used to resolve the lookup.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <command>+dnssec</command> is also set when +trace is
+ set to better emulate the default queries from a nameserver.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>+[no]cmd</option></term>
@@ -594,8 +595,35 @@
<listitem>
<para>
Toggle the display of comment lines in the output. The default
- is to
- print comments.
+ is to print comments.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>+[no]rrcomments</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Toggle the display of per-record comments in the output (for
+ example, human-readable key information about DNSKEY records).
+ The default is not to print record comments unless multiline
+ mode is active.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>+split=W</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Split long hex- or base64-formatted fields in resource
+ records into chunks of <parameter>W</parameter> characters
+ (where <parameter>W</parameter> is rounded up to the nearest
+ multiple of 4).
+ <parameter>+nosplit</parameter> or
+ <parameter>+split=0</parameter> causes fields not to be
+ split at all. The default is 56 characters, or 44 characters
+ when multiline mode is active.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -755,9 +783,10 @@
<listitem>
<para>
Specify the EDNS version to query with. Valid values
- are 0 to 255. Setting the EDNS version will cause a
- EDNS query to be sent. <option>+noedns</option> clears the
- remembered EDNS version.
+ are 0 to 255. Setting the EDNS version will cause
+ a EDNS query to be sent. <option>+noedns</option>
+ clears the remembered EDNS version. EDNS is set to
+ 0 by default.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
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