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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2008-08-25 10:41:16 UTC
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* mandos-options.xml (address): Refer to IPv4-mapped IPv6 address
                                syntax by name.

* mandos.conf.xml (SEE ALSO): Also refer to gnutls_priority_init(3),
                              RFC 4291, and Zeroconf.

* mandos.xml (SEE ALSO): Also refer to sections 2.2 and 2.5.5.2 of RFC
                         4291.  Stop using <citation> tags.

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"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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<!ENTITY VERSION "1.0">
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<!ENTITY COMMANDNAME "mandos">
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<!ENTITY OVERVIEW SYSTEM "overview.xml">
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<refentry>
 
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<refentry xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
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  <refentryinfo>
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    <title>&COMMANDNAME;</title>
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    <!-- NWalsh’s docbook scripts use this to generate the footer: -->
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  <refsynopsisdiv>
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    <cmdsynopsis>
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      <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
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      <arg>--interface<arg choice="plain">IF</arg></arg>
 
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      <arg>--interface<arg choice="plain">NAME</arg></arg>
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      <arg>--address<arg choice="plain">ADDRESS</arg></arg>
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      <arg>--port<arg choice="plain">PORT</arg></arg>
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      <arg>--priority<arg choice="plain">PRIORITY</arg></arg>
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    </cmdsynopsis>
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    <cmdsynopsis>
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      <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
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      <arg>-i<arg choice="plain">IF</arg></arg>
 
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      <arg>-i<arg choice="plain">NAME</arg></arg>
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      <arg>-a<arg choice="plain">ADDRESS</arg></arg>
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      <arg>-p<arg choice="plain">PORT</arg></arg>
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      <arg>--priority<arg choice="plain">PRIORITY</arg></arg>
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      </varlistentry>
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        <term><literal>-i</literal>, <literal>--interface <replaceable>
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        IF</replaceable></literal></term>
 
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        <term><literal>-i</literal>, <literal>--interface <replaceable
 
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        >NAME</replaceable></literal></term>
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            Only announce the server and listen to requests on network
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            interface <replaceable>IF</replaceable>.  Default is to
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            use all available interfaces.  <emphasis>Note:</emphasis>
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            a failure to bind to the specified interface is not
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            considered critical, and the server does not exit.
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          </para>
 
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          <xi:include href="mandos-options.xml" xpointer="interface"/>
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      </varlistentry>
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        <term><literal>-a</literal>, <literal>--address <replaceable>
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        ADDRESS</replaceable></literal></term>
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        <listitem>
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          <para>
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            If this option is used, the server will only listen to a
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            specific address.  This must currently be an IPv6 address;
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            an IPv4 address can be specified using the
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            <quote><literal>::FFFF:192.0.2.3</literal></quote> syntax.
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        PRIORITY</replaceable></literal></term>
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      longer eligible to receive the encrypted password.  The timeout,
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