nsupdate in a multi-view environment

[Thomas H. Jones II]

Kevin Darcy wrote:
> "Thomas H. Jones II" wrote:
> > Just out of curiosity, where is that documented. I -thought- that I
> > had read the man page for nsupdate and the FAQ's, but did not see that
> > info?
> 
> Which version of the man page do you have? The BIND 9.2.2rc1 man page has this
> section:
> 
> >      The command formats and their meaning are as follows:
> >
> >      server servername [ port ]
> >           Sends all dynamic update requests to  the  name  server
> >           servername.   When  no  server  statement  is provided,
> >           nsupdate will send updates to the master server of  the
> >           correct  zone.   The  MNAME  field  of  that zone's SOA
> >           record will identify the master server for  that  zone.
> >           port is the port number on servername where the dynamic
> >           update requests get sent.  If no port number is  speci-
> >           fied, the default DNS port number of 53 is used.

CRAP... ok, figured it out. Though I am running BIND 9.2.1, the
manpages that showed up were for the Solaris 9
supplied BIND. So, $MANPATH ordering issue. Oops.

-tom

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