BIND 9 Not Sending Updates?

[Kevin Darcy]

You're miscomprehending what nsupdate does. nsupdate doesn't update *files*
directly. It sends updates to a nameserver which then writes zone data to
files when it needs/wants to. What you effectively told nsupdate was to read
the zone file as a list of nsupdate commands, but nsupdate commands are in a
totally different syntax than zonefile records. All you managed to do was
confuse and annoy nsupdate.

Look at the man page for "nsupdate" for the syntax you need to use to
construct and send updates.


- Kevin

Hunter Hillegas wrote:

> I don't think my message made it to the list...
>
> Anyway, I'm still having problems.
>
> I tried running: 'nsupdate my-file.zone'
>
> And it spat out a bunch of errors like:
>
> incorrect section name: $TTL
> incorrect section name: @
> incorrect section name: 2000031273
> incorrect section name: 7200
> incorrect section name: 3600
> incorrect section name: 60480
> incorrect section name: 7200;
> incorrect section name: )
> incorrect section name: @
> incorrect section name: @
> incorrect section name: @
> incorrect section name: @
> incorrect section name: www
> incorrect section name: ftp
> incorrect section name: mail
> incorrect section name: *
>
> My domains are still not sending updates to the secondaries since the move
> to BIND 9.1.0 (Red Hat 7.1).
>
> I only have SSH access to the machine so I can't use Red Hat's other tools.
> The editing of the file worked fine for me in older versions of BIND.
>
> Any help is GREATLY appreciated...
>
> Hunter
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> > From: Mark.Andrews at isc.org
> > Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 12:15:05 +1000
> > To: hunter at ratevegas.com (Hunter Hillegas)
> > Cc: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
> > Subject: Re: BIND 9 Not Sending Updates?
> >
> >
> > Do the zones in question have an "allow-update" clause.
> > If so you should not be updating them by hand.  Use
> > nsupdate instead.
> >
> > Mark
> >>
> >> We just started running BIND 9 and it seems like it is not sending
> >> NOTIFY messages to secondaries when the zone is updated and serial
> >> number is changed.
> >>
> >> The logs show named starting, etc... but after a HUP there is no
> >> mention of a NOTIFY being sent for zones that have changed...
> >>
> >> The notify directive is turned to "yes" in named.conf and the
> >> secondaries are named in an allow-transfer{} block.
> >>
> >> What are we doing wrong?
> >>
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