Dynamic update of glue records

[Kevin Darcy]

ether at armadillonetworks.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to dynamically update glue records in a parent zone?  For
> example, in a parent zone "foo.com" that contains the following delegation
> and glue:
>
> bar.foo.com. IN NS bar.foo.com.
> bar.foo.com. IN A  42.1.2.3
>
> And the data at bar.foo.com gets dynamically updated to
> bar.foo.com. IN A 80.1.2.3
>
> How do we push this new IP address to foo.com?  Obviously stub zones are
> no good here because the parent has no idea how to contact the child
> anymore.
>
> I understand nsupdate in the bind9 distribution has the "server"
> directive,

Don't you mean "zone" directive?

> but is anything doable in bind8 - other than hacking a new
> version of nsupdate to select a different destination for the UPDATE packet
> other than the authority for the data?

Why not just use the BIND 9 nsupdate with a BIND 8 nameserver?


- Kevin