one more nsupdate question..

[Chris Buxton]

As far as I know, you would have to wrap nsupdate in a script that  
sends the necessary queries to diagnose any problems, and then return  
a meaningful error message.

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On Dec 9, 2007, at 4:45 AM, Jack Tavares wrote:

> Using bind9.4.2, if I attempt to add a MX record using nsupdate
> and there is no A record that matches I get a operation refused  
> message.
> [I understand why it fails]
>
> What I would like to be able to do is to give a better error message
> back to my user.
>
> Is there anyway to get a better error message out of nsupdate?
>
> for example:
>> update add test.net. 500 in MX 123 madman.test.net.
>>
> update failed: REFUSED
> Thanks
>
> --
> Jack Tavares
>
>
>