From: Aki Tuomi <cmouse@cmouse.fi>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 05:55:10 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: Add documentation for ABI 5 related issues
X-Git-Tag: dnsdist-1.0.0-alpha1~248^2~77^2~3^2~4
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=32f5a7892cc4c0f6b1d68de4c921f955805a2f31;p=pdns

Add documentation for ABI 5 related issues
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diff --git a/docs/markdown/authoritative/backend-pipe.md b/docs/markdown/authoritative/backend-pipe.md
index a006beb01..682df3e56 100644
--- a/docs/markdown/authoritative/backend-pipe.md
+++ b/docs/markdown/authoritative/backend-pipe.md
@@ -178,6 +178,16 @@ DATA    scopebits   auth    qname       qclass  qtype   ttl id  content
 
 For abi-versions 1 and 2, the two new fields fall back to default values. The default value for scopebits is 0. The default for auth is 1 (meaning authoritative).
 
+## Direct backend commands
+With abi-version 5 you can use [backend-cmd](dnssec.md#pdnssec) for executing commands on your backend. PowerDNS will use the following query/answer format
+```
+CMD	Whatever you wrote
+Answer goes here
+And can be multiple lines
+until we see
+END
+```
+
 ## Sample perl backend
 ```
 !!include=../modules/pipebackend/backend.pl