Dynamic ip nsupdate

[Don Byington]

On Thu, 08 Aug 2002 12:10:35 -0700, Jim Reid wrote:

>>>>>> "Raul" == Raul Sanchez Sanchez <raul at dif.um.es> writes:
> 
>     Raul> I have installed bind 8.3.3 from apt in a woody and when i
>     Raul> try to update whith nsupdate i have this message:
> 
>     Raul> # /usr/bin/nsupdate -v -k  /etc/Kgnudip-key.+157+00000.private
>     Raul> > update add prueba.ade.com. 60 A 192.168.2.1
> 
>     Raul> dns_request_createvia: address family not supported
> 
>     Raul> i don't know where is the problem, can anybody help me?
> 
> The "address family not supported" error message should be a Big Clue to
> the source of the problem. You're trying to use network protocols that
> are not supported by the kernel. I'll guess you have an IPv6 address for
> the loopback interface mentioned somewhere -- /etc/hosts? -- but your
> kernel doesn't have IPv6 support switched on. In short, nsupdate tried
> to set up an IPv6 socket for the loopback interface to speak to named
> but the OS doesn't know how to handle IPv6 packets.


????

I Don't see any IPv6 addrs in the update request. It would appear that
the address family was forgotten in the update command
try:

update add prueba.ade.com. 60 IN A 192.168.2.1

IN being the Internet class.