editing a dynamically updated file

[Mark Damrose]

"Ted Wood" <twood at twu.edu> wrote in message
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>
> Speaking of nsupdate, I recently had a problem that I couldn't solve =
> with
> nsupdate and was wondering if it's a bug or what.  I'm using bind 9.2 =
> on
> Redhat Linux 7.1.  I was trying to remove a NS record from my master =
> zone
> file using the command:
> #nsupdate
> >update delete noc.missouri.edu IN NS
> >send
> >
>
> It gave me no complaints but would never get rid of the record.  I =
> finally
> resorted to turning dynamic updates off, manually editing the file and
> turning dynamic updates back on which worked. =20
>

I just tried this, and it looks like BIND won't allow you to delete *all* NS
records - which is what the listed command will do.  I was able to delete a
specific NS record using:
nsupdate
> update delete domain.tld IN NS ns.domain.tld
>