[KLUG Members] The living evil of nsupdate

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> Is it just me, or is nsupdate(8) responsible for all suffering in the
> world?

Nope, it is just you.  I love nsupdate.  But then I've also been accused
of being wicked and twisted.

> I used to update DNS automatically via Samba: clients would get a
> dynamic IP from dhcpd, logon to Samba, and use "wins hook" to call a
> script to dynamically update DNS entries. When I upgraded to BINDv9 and
> found the DNSSEC documentation a little opaque, I stopped this. dhcpd
> doesn't drift much, but I would have to manually update entries in the
> zone files. :-(

Mmm, how many clients do you have?  Doesn't sound like fun to me.

> I just got named-with-DNSSEC working again. What a pain. Now, I used to
> issue a bunch of commands to nsupdate so:
>  # nsupdate -k Kexample.com.+157+83765.private
>  > update add foo.example.com. 3600 IN A 192.168.1.200
>  > update add 200.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. 3600 IN PTR foo.example.com.
>  >
>  > # 
> An empty <lf>, then ^D to process the commands, then exit. Now each
> command must be followed by an empty <lf> or the commands all fail. Does
> nsupdate display this behavior in other distros?

Nope, nsupdate doesn't seem to require an <lf> here.