Requesting Update-Policy Statements Sanity Check, Please

[Mark Andrews]

> On 3 Feb 2023, at 21:47, Darren Ankney <darren.ankney at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> You would probably need to attach your entire named.conf file (with
> sensitive bits (keys and the like) redacted and perhaps subnets
> obscured to examples such as 192.0.2.0/24, for example) before anyone
> would be able to help you.
> 
> That being said, your update policy statements don't look correct to
> me. Have you tried to load them with BIND?  Do they pass syntax check?
> The reason they don't look right is that they seem to follow this
> format correctly:
> 
> # (grant | deny ) identity ruletype  name   types
> 
> but  include the word "name" which I think is meant to be replaced
> with your actual domain name (ie: I don't think the word "name" should
> be in the policy).

No, “name” there is the rule type.  

> I have not previously used update-policy but I'd think it should be like this:
> 
> update-policy {grant <SomeKey> <SomeDomain> A AAAA;};

This leaves out rule type.

> 
> from reading: https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/v9_18_11/reference.html#namedconf-statement-update-policy

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