| # NDNS: Domain Name Service for Named Data Networking |
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| [](https://travis-ci.org/named-data/ndns) |
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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 by the 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. |
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| ## Installation |
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| See [`docs/INSTALL.rst`](docs/INSTALL.rst) for build instructions. |
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| ## Reporting bugs |
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| Please submit any bug reports or feature requests to the |
| [NDNS issue tracker](https://redmine.named-data.net/projects/ndns/issues). |
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| ## Contributing |
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| We greatly appreciate contributions to the NDNS code base, provided that they are |
| licensed under the GPL 3.0+ or a compatible license (see below). |
| If you are new to the NDN software community, please read the |
| [Contributor's Guide](https://github.com/named-data/.github/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) |
| to get started. |
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| ## License |
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| NDNS is an open source project licensed under the GPL version 3. |
| See [`COPYING.md`](COPYING.md) for more information. |