Using HINFO with nsupdate and BIND 8.2.2-p5

[Ingvar Hagelund]

> Ingvar Hagelund:
> > (...snip..) Troubles with updating HINFO and TXT RRs with nsupdate
> > Command sent to nsupdate:
> > update add mymachine.somewhere.com 86400 IN HINFO Pentium Linux

On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 02:18:28 Kevin Darcy wrote:
> 
> The RR-formatting routines seem to be choking on the HINFO record, but the
> Dynamic Update itself looks like it succeeded. Does the HINFO record look
okay
> if you query it with a real troubleshooting tool like "dig"?

Well, it looks a little, what should I call it, strange. The values are there,
sure,
but still with some errors. Here's the output:

#dig @nameserver mymachine.somewhere.com hinfo

; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> @nameserver mymachine.somewhere.com hinfo 
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 5, ADDITIONAL: 5
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;	mymachine.somewhere.com, type = HINFO, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
mymachine.somewhere.com.		1D IN HINFO	""\#(	; RR
format error
	50 65 6e 74 69 75 6d 20 4c 69 6e 75 78 )	; Pentium Linux

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
(...snip...)

The contents of the db.somewhere domain may also be interesting:

mymachine  86400   IN      A       193.156.96.219               ;Cl=2
           86400   IN      MX      10 mail.somewhere.com.       ;Cl=2
           86400   IN      HINFO   "entium Linux" "$"           ;Cl=2

It looks like there has been some error in the parsing of the system and OS
type
when updating the DNS. Only one of the data fields has been updated (with an
error).

Ingvar

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