Dynamic update of glue records

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

> 
> 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?

	BIND 8's internal database in not up to handling this.  It
	was one of the things BIND 9 fixed.

	Mark

> 
> 
> - Kevin
> 
> 
> 
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