When Updates Fail

[Chris Buxton]

On Jan 7, 2014, at 2:05 PM, Martin McCormick <martin at dc.cis.okstate.edu> wrote:

> 	Is there any way to tell what is actually being sent to
> bind when attempting a dynamic update?
> 
> 	I have a perl script which is obviously broken because
> every forward update it tries to send fails.
> 
> 07-Jan-2014 15:38:09.458 client 192.168.1.5#17352: request has invalid signature: TSIG ns: tsig verify failure (BADKEY)

Are you using Net::DNS to send your updates? If so, what version? There is a bug in 0.73 with regard to TSIG. One solution, for the time being, is to downgrade to 0.72. Or there’s a release candidate for 0.74 that apparently fixes it, but I haven’t tested it.

Regards,
Chris Buxton