How to use update-policy type "external"
Ondřej Surý
ondrej at isc.org
Tue Mar 14 21:42:51 UTC 2023
> I am not sure how to start debugging this. Can anyone help?
Well, start with sharing as much details as you can. It’s hard to tell what you are doing from a single configuration line.
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> On 14. 3. 2023, at 19:00, Vladimir Brik <vladimir.brik at icecube.wisc.edu> wrote:
>
> Thanks, quoting worked!
>
> Does anybody know if the socket of an "external" update-policy supposed to receive data for every dynamic DNS update?
>
> I `strace`ed the `named` process and pushed some updates using nsupdate, but I saw no attempts to do anything with the socket file (no opens, no writes) and nothing related to the socket in the logs either.
>
> I am not sure how to start debugging this. Can anyone help?
>
>
> Vlad
>
>
>> On 3/14/23 11:06, Ondřej Surý wrote:
>> I haven't used this personally, but in the system tests, this works:
>> update-policy {
>> grant Administrator at EXAMPLE.NIL wildcard * A AAAA SRV CNAME;
>> grant testdenied at EXAMPLE.NIL wildcard * TXT;
>> grant "local:/tmp/auth.sock" external * CNAME;
>> };
>> e.g. you need to quote the path.
>> The documentation is silent on NAME field, but I would suggest using either * or . as placeholder.
>> Ondrej
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>>>> On 14. 3. 2023, at 16:56, Vladimir Brik <vladimir.brik at icecube.wisc.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> I am trying to set up an "external" dynamic DNS update policy but I can't figure out the syntax.
>>>
>>> The documentation [1] says that the "identity" field needs to be in the form local:PATH, but using something like the following results in an error: "expected unquoted string near '/'", and I don't know how to fix it.
>>>
>>> update-policy {
>>> grant local:/tmp/sock external NAME txt;
>>> };
>>>
>>> Also, the documentation doesn't say how NAME is interpreted. Is it ignored?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks very much
>>>
>>> Vlad
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference.html#namedconf-statement-update-policy
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