Updates to README

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Miek Gieben
2016-04-19 10:26:29 +00:00
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@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ Currently CoreDNS is able to:
* Retrieve zone data from primaries, i.e. act as a secondary server.
* Loadbalancing of responses.
* Allow for zone transfers, i.e. act as a primary server.
* Use etcd as a backend, i.e. a 94.5% replacement for
* Caching
* Use etcd as a backend, i.e. a 98.5% replacement for
[SkyDNS](https://github.com/skynetservices/skydns).
* Serve as a proxy to forward queries to some other (recursive) nameserver.
* Rewrite queries (both qtype, qclass and qname).

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@@ -20,10 +20,19 @@ A cache mostly makes sense with a middleware that is potentially slow, i.e. a pr
answer, or to minimize backend queries for middleware like etcd. Using a cache with the file
middleware essentially doubles the memory load with no concealable increase of query speed.
The minimum TTL allowed on resource records is 5 seconds.
## Examples
~~~
cache
cache 10
~~~
Enable caching for all zones.
Enable caching for all zones, but cap everything to a TTL of 10 seconds.
~~~
proxy . 8.8.8.8:53
cache miek.nl
~~~
Proxy to Google Public DNS and only cache responses for miek.nl (or below).