FW: adding record types with nsupdate

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a4c1vd$52a at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Ted Wood  <twood at twu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I recently switched over to dynamic dns with bind 9.2 on Linux and I have
>> noticed that my master zone file no longer has any MX records in it.  I
>> also cannot seem to figure out how to add an MX record.  I have tried

There are examples of adding MX records in the section of the Cricket book
on DNS Dynamic Update.

>> every variation of >update add host.twu.edu. IN A 192.168.100.1 MX I can
>> think of.

If mail.twu.edu is the server that mail for user at host.twu.edu should be
sent to, you would do:

>update add host.twu.edu. IN MX 10 mail.twu.edu.

Basically, the rest of the line after "update add" should be identical to
the line you would enter into the DB file manually.

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