NDNS: Domain Name Service for Named Data Networking
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NDNS is a completely distributed database system that largely mimics the structure of the
DNS system in today's Internet but operates within the NDN architecture.  Although the
design of NDNS was primarily driven with a desire to provide support for cryptographic key
distribution and routing scalability management, we believe that NDNS can also serve a
number of other purposes during the development and deployment of the NDN architecture in
coming years.

NDNS Documentation
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.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   INSTALL
   ndns-packet-format
   ndns-db-manage
   manpages

**Additional documentation**

* `API documentation (doxygen) <doxygen/annotated.html>`_

* `Addressing Operational Challenges in Named Data Networking Through NDNS Distributed
  Database <http://lasr.cs.ucla.edu/afanasyev/data/files/Afanasyev/afanasyev-phd-thesis.pdf>`_
  (PhD Thesis, outlining purpose and overall design of the NDNS system)

Downloading
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* `Source code GitHub git repository <https://github.com/named-data/NDNS>`_.

License
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NDNS is an open and free software package licensed under GPL 3.0 license and is the
centerpiece of our committement to making NDN's core technology open and free to all
Internet users and developers. For more information about the licensing details and
limitation, refer to `COPYING.md <https://github.com/named-data/NDNS/blob/master/COPYING.md>`_.