size limit on RDATA in nsupdate

[Carsten Strotmann]

Hello Shumon,

Shumon Huque <shuque at gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 7:35 AM, Carsten Strotmann <cas at strotmann.de>
> wrote:
>
>   Hi,
>
>   I'm trying to build an automated update system for OPENPGPKEY records
>   with BIND 9 9.9.6-P2 and "nsupate".
>
>   I've verified the TSIG keys, I can add and remove TXT records with the
>   key under the domain name.
>
>   Adding a 6K PGP key as OPENPGPKEY does fail with
>
>   21-Feb-2015 13:24:19.714 dns_rdata_fromtext: buffer-0x7f04662e14f0:1:
>   near eof: unexpected end of input
>   invalid rdata format: unexpected end of input
>
>   Below is the debug output from nsupdate:
>
> I also encountered this limit in nsupdate when I attempted to create my
> OPENPGPKEY record a while back (I should have sent in a bug report then).
> Until the bug is fixed, I'd suggest using alternative dynamic update
> tools. Here's a snippet of python code I used for myself (needs the
> dnspython module):

thanks, this is very useful. 

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Carsten Strotmann
Email: cas at strotmann.de
Blog: strotmann.de