Merge pull request #36 from deep-42-thought/master

documentation: make it clear, what incompleteness `-b` has
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@ -51,7 +51,9 @@ and a server with a public IP address to run `iodined` on. If this server
already runs a DNS program, change its listening port and then use `iodined`'s
`-b` option to let `iodined` forward the DNS requests. (Note that this procedure
is not advised in production environments, because `iodined`'s DNS forwarding
is not completely transparent.)
is not completely transparent, for example zone transfers will not work.)
Alternatively you can forward the subdomain from your DNS server to `iodined`
which must then run on a different port (`-p`).
Then, delegate a subdomain (say, `t1.mydomain.com`) to the iodined server.
If you use BIND for your domain, add two lines like these to the zone file: