nsupdate configuration

[Kevin Darcy]

1) UPDATER != UPDATOR (???)

2) What's recorded in the nameserver logs?

3) What does nsupdate's debug (-d) output show?


- Kevin

Charles Bodley wrote:

> I'm trying to setup nsupdate so that it can modify a single domain. As a
> test I created the domain ABC.com.
>
> key DDNS_UPDATER {
>         algorithm HMAC-MD5;
>         secret AAAABBBBCCCCDDDDEEEEFFFF;
> };
> zone "ABC.com"{
>        type master;
>        file "db.ABC_com";
>         allow-update { key DDNS_UPDATER; };
> };
> The command I am sending is
>
> nsupdate -y DDNS_UPDATOR:AAAABBBBCCCCDDDDEEEEFFFF 1
>
> where 1 is the name of a file in the PWD. The contents of the file follow,
> server 127.0.0.1
> local 127.0.0.1
> zone ABC.com
> update delete login.ABC.com
> prereq nxdomain login.abc.com
> update add login.abc.com 30 CNAME login-a.abc.com
>
> >From what I've read in the Bv9ARM.pdf and the man pages it should be
> working. Yet when I send the command the result is
> dns_request_getresponse: tsig indicates error
>
> If anyone has any Ideas please let me know. I will eventally have 2 files so
> that I can switch between login-a and login-b. Any help would be
> appreciated.