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+pdns-server toolkit
+===================
+
+A minimal and scalable toolkit for Passive DNS. The toolkit
+can be used for research, security analysis or data mining.
+
+The data store of the Passive DNS is relying on Redis.
+The data store format is described in ./doc/datastore-format.txt 
+