Nsupdate ?

[weezle]

Hello all...

Running RH - kernel 2.4.2-2 and bind 9.2.1

I'm sure it's something I've forgot to do but...am not sure where to look for the answer. I'm unable to manually add a host to the zone file using nsupdate. When I attempt to update the system it does not complain but when I run nslookup, the client I added to the zone file does not appear. I have tried both forward and reverse lookups.

named.conf has the ip address of the bind server listed as a listner for dynamic updates and that's not happening either.

Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? Or is there a different tool to update the zone file?

Thanks for you help.

[weezle]

I've found the answer to my problem. Don't ask me how - but I over-looked named.conf entries for both forward and reverse lookups "allow-updates from xx.xx.xx.xx"

Apparently the file I copied was "locked-down" and all I had to do was unlock it.

Working now. :D - Wuuuu huuuuu....

[inspleak]

If you dont' mind me asking.. what exactly does
the named daemon allow you to do? Resolve ips with hostnames? and is that just for the LAN or is it all ips?

thanks!

[weezle]

Don't mind you asking at all...

named is the daemon for BIND (dns) which allows the lan (or subnet) you are connected to do as you stated - resolve fqdn's to ip addresses or the reverse (ip addresses to fqdn's). WINS allows you to resolve netbios names (hostnames) to ip addresses or the reverse.

You can find out a lot more on this topic at http://www.ics.org - :cool: