nsupdate++? basic DDNS zone maintenance tool?

[Kevin Darcy]

I'm aware of such a tool, since I wrote it. :-)

Unfortunately, it was written on DaimlerChrysler time and with their
equipment, so it's legally their property.

If you want to re-invent the wheel, I could give you some general advice
offline...


- Kevin

David Carmean wrote:

> Greetings...
>
> I'm trying to get away from the ugliness of my current setup,
> which repeatedly runs h2n against a hostfile to recreate three or
> four forward and about 120 in-addr.arpa zones for each modification :o)
>
> I want to use DDNS (and already have servers configured such that
> nsupdate works correctly) to avoid the usual simultaneous zonefile
> access and syntax error problems.  But I need (want) something
> that's just a slight step up from nsupdate.
>
> For example, I want all add requests to automagically have nxdomain prereq
> set, or at least nxrrset for A records unless overridden by
> a --force flag or similar.  I also need it to deal with the
> fact that from the point of view of nsupdate, BIND silently
> ignores an update that would result in a "CNAME and OTHER data"
> record.  And I'd love if it would automagically maintain the
> appropriate reverse PTR records.
>
> So, basically, I need nsupdate + a few simple business rules,
> preferrably with a command-line and batch-mode interface.
> Is anyone aware of such a tool?
>
> Thanks...
>
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