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Michael Johnson 2fc736c627 Add a user guide for Neutron/Nova DNS integration 
This patch adds a user guide that describes how to use the Neutron/Nova integration with Designate. It provides examples for Nova instance, Neutron ports and floating IPs.

Previously this information was split across Nova, Neutron, and Designate documentation.

This patch also adds a "references" section to the documentation and adds a glossary document to help explain some of our terms.

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Designate Glossary

The following is a glossary of terms that may be used througout the Designate documentation and code.

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Fully Qualified Domain Name

A domain name that includes all levels of the domain hierarchy, including the root domain (represented by a period at the end). Fully Qualified Domain Name is sometimes abreviated as FQDN. Example: www.example.com.

Record

The data (also known as the RDATA in RFC1034) part of a recordset. Recordsets may have one or more records. An example of a record for a recordset of type A would be an IP address, such as 192.0.2.1.

Recordset

A recordset represents one or more DNS records<Record> that share the same Name and Type. For example, a recordset named www.example.com., with a Type of A, may contain two records; 192.0.2.1 and 192.0.2.2.

Zone

A zone represents a namespace in DNS, for example the zone example.com. may contain a recordset<Recordset> for www.