nsupdate dilemma

[Cricket Liu]

> I have bind 8.2.2pl5 running on dnsdev (solaris 5.7 sparc Ultra 10).  The
> configuration file is set up to allow updates from my personal machine,
> smt6, (solaris 5.6  sparc 10) as well as dnsdev itself.  dnsdev is setup
as
> the primary nameserver for smt6.  After adding the configuration changes I
> HUP'ed named.  nsupdate did not work from either smt6 nor dnsdev.  It
> didn't acknowledge the input ... it just returned without logging,
> changing, or outputting anything...
>
> UNIX> nsupdate
>  > update add temp.cind.ornl.gov 700 in cname smt6.cind.ornl.gov
>  >
>  > ^D
> UNIX>
>
> What am I missing?  Also, I would GREATLY appreciate any information
> about  nsupdate beyond what's available through man pages.

Try running nsupdate with the -d (debug) option.  That should
give you (and us) a better idea of what's going wrong.

cricket