Dynamic updates with nsupdate

[Kevin Darcy]

News.Individual.Net wrote:

>Good afternoon all,
>
>I built up a RH9 machine runing BIND 9.3.0, with a single zone.  I want
>unsecured dynamic updates to be allowed on this zone.  So far BIND is up and
>running and resolving names very nicely, however using nsupdate I am unable
>to perform dynamic updates.  nsupdate reports: Communication with server
>failed: timed out.  The nsupdate command is:
>
>[root at server-01 sbin]# nsupdate
>  
>
>>update add client-01.domain.com 600 IN A 10.0.0.5
>>
>>    
>>
>;Communication with server failed: timed out
>  
>
>
>The following are my configuration and zone files:
>
># named.conf
>key "rndc-key" {
>  algorithm hmac-md5;
>  secret "xxxxx";
>};
>
>controls {
>  inet 127.0.0.1 port 953
>    allow { 127.0.0.1; } keys { "rndc-key"; };
>};
>
>options {
>  directory "/var/named";
>  pid-file "/var/run/named-int.pid";
>  listen-on port 53 { 10.0.0.1; 127.0.0.1; };
>};
>
>zone "domain.com" IN {
>  type master;
>  allow-transfer { 10/8; 127.0.0.1; };
>  allow-update  { 10/8; 127.0.0.1; };
>  file "/var/named/domain.com.zone";
>};
>
># domain.com.zone
>$TTL 1H
>@    SOA    dns1.domain.com.    hostmaster.domain.com. (
>    1, 1D, 30M, 1W, 1H
>    )
>
>    IN    NS    dns1.domain.com.
>    IN    MX    mail.domain.com
>
>mail    IN    A    10.0.0.2
>dns1    IN    A    10.0.0.1
>www    IN    A    10.0.0.3
>ftp    IN    A    10.0.0.3
>server-01    IN    A    10.0.0.4
>
>Any advice or information anyone could suggest would be greatly appreciated.
>
The first step is to turn on debugging via "-d" on the command line. 
Without that, we'll only be guessing blindly at the cause of the problem.


                                                                         
                                       - Kevin