nsupdate in a multi-view environment
Kevin Darcy
kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Wed Nov 20 20:54:48 UTC 2002
"Thomas H. Jones II" wrote:
> Kevin Darcy wrote:
>
> > Thomas H Jones II wrote:
> > > Is there any way that I can force nsupdate to use the loopback interface
> > > for the exterior updates and the internal interface for the interior
> > > updates?
> >
> > Sure, the BIND 9 version of nsupdate supports a "server" command which
> > directs the Dynamic Update to a particular address. E.g.
> >
> > server 127.0.0.1
> > update add foo.example.com. 86400 a 1.2.3.4
> > send
>
> Cool! That did the trick. Now have .jnl's for both files associated
> with the two views of the zone data.
>
> 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.
>
>
- Kevin
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