nsupdate

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

	I've logged this as a compatability bug with BIND 8, however
	what you are attempting to do is *not* documented as working
	with BIND 9.

	Use "nsupdate < filename" instead.

	Mark
> 
> Bind-Users,
> 
> I just recently upgraded from bind-8 to bind-9 on my solaris 8 (SunOS 
> dnswizard 5.8 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10)  machine.  With bind-9, 
> I am no longer able to use nsupdate non-interactively (the interactive 
> works just fine).   Here's a short description of what happens:
> 
> unix> nsupdate filename
>  >
> 
> ...and then waits forever for a control D (or C), and if I give it the 
> control D nsupdate returns, but it doesn't do my update.
> 
> Anyone else find this problem, and if so, any idea how to fix (hard code 
> fix?) or work around it?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paige Stafford.
> 
> 
> 
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