Dynamic update of glue records
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Fri Aug 3 05:45:07 UTC 2001
>
> ether at armadillonetworks.com wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is it possible to dynamically update glue records in a parent zone? For
> > example, in a parent zone "foo.com" that contains the following delegation
> > and glue:
> >
> > bar.foo.com. IN NS bar.foo.com.
> > bar.foo.com. IN A 42.1.2.3
> >
> > And the data at bar.foo.com gets dynamically updated to
> > bar.foo.com. IN A 80.1.2.3
> >
> > How do we push this new IP address to foo.com? Obviously stub zones are
> > no good here because the parent has no idea how to contact the child
> > anymore.
> >
> > I understand nsupdate in the bind9 distribution has the "server"
> > directive,
>
> Don't you mean "zone" directive?
>
> > but is anything doable in bind8 - other than hacking a new
> > version of nsupdate to select a different destination for the UPDATE packet
> > other than the authority for the data?
>
> Why not just use the BIND 9 nsupdate with a BIND 8 nameserver?
BIND 8's internal database in not up to handling this. It
was one of the things BIND 9 fixed.
Mark
>
>
> - Kevin
>
>
>
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