diff --git a/website/source/docs/guides/dns-cache.html.markdown b/website/source/docs/guides/dns-cache.html.markdown index 37d79fc476..0d66858fce 100644 --- a/website/source/docs/guides/dns-cache.html.markdown +++ b/website/source/docs/guides/dns-cache.html.markdown @@ -35,14 +35,14 @@ and `dns_config.max_stale` which limits how stale results are allowed to be. By default, `allow_stale` is disabled meaning no stale results may be served. -The default for `max_stale` is 5 seconds. This means that is `allow_stale` is +The default for `max_stale` is 5 seconds. This means that if `allow_stale` is enabled, we will use data from any Consul server that is within 5 seconds of the leader. ## TTL Values TTL values can be set to allow DNS results to be cached upstream -of Consul which can be reduce the number of lookups and to amortize +of Consul which can be used to reduce the number of lookups and to amortize the latency of doing a DNS lookup. By default, all TTLs are zero, preventing any caching. diff --git a/website/source/docs/guides/forwarding.html.markdown b/website/source/docs/guides/forwarding.html.markdown index 17f6b20b0e..9e20ed4ffe 100644 --- a/website/source/docs/guides/forwarding.html.markdown +++ b/website/source/docs/guides/forwarding.html.markdown @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ sidebar_current: "docs-guides-forwarding" # Forwarding DNS -By default DNS is served from port 53 which requires root privileges. +By default, DNS is served from port 53 which requires root privileges. Instead of running Consul as root, it is possible to instead run Bind and forward queries to Consul as appropriate. diff --git a/website/source/docs/guides/index.html.markdown b/website/source/docs/guides/index.html.markdown index a3851c7d5a..9744f4a806 100644 --- a/website/source/docs/guides/index.html.markdown +++ b/website/source/docs/guides/index.html.markdown @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ sidebar_current: "docs-guides" This section provides various guides for common actions. Due to the nature of Consul, some of these procedures can be complex, so our goal is to provide -guidance do doing them safely. +guidance to do them safely. The following guides are available: diff --git a/website/source/docs/guides/servers.html.markdown b/website/source/docs/guides/servers.html.markdown index ba0a7e280b..64b4583f04 100644 --- a/website/source/docs/guides/servers.html.markdown +++ b/website/source/docs/guides/servers.html.markdown @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ the new servers up-to-date. Removing servers must be done carefully to avoid causing an availability outage. For a cluster of N servers, at least (N/2)+1 must be available for the cluster -to functions. See this [deployment table](/docs/internals/consensus.html#toc_3). +to function. See this [deployment table](/docs/internals/consensus.html#toc_3). If you have 3 servers, and 1 of them is currently failed, removing any servers will cause the cluster to become unavailable.