nsupdate aborted

[Kevin Darcy]

This is a bug in nsupdate. It's also present in the 9.1.1 version. No fix
available as of yet.


- Kevin

Andy Choi wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to do nxrrset with nsupdate(8) shipped with a stock redhat
> 7.1 (BIND 9.1.0_2) but failed.
>
> The question i have is that:
> - Is a problem only with the BIND shipped with redhat 7.1, or BIND
> 9.1.0?
> - Do i use nxrrset in some incorrect manner?
>
> Here is what i have done:
>
> nsupdate -d
> >server 127.0.0.1
> >prereq nxrrset 2.30.168.192.in-addr.arpa PTR
> >update add 1.30.168.192.in-addr.arpa 86400 PTR www.andy2.wh.ensim.com.
>
> Output:
> Reply from SOA query:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id:  27778
> ;; flags: qr aa rd ra ; QUESTION: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1,
> ADDITIONAL: 0
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;1.30.168.192.in-addr.arpa.     IN      SOA
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> 30.168.192.in-addr.arpa. 3600   IN      SOA     joe.ian.ensim.com.
> andy.ensim.com. 4 3600 600 86400 3600
>
> Found zone name: 30.168.192.in-addr.arpa
> The master is: joe.ian.ensim.com
> rdata/generic/ptr_12.c:87: REQUIRE(rdata->length != 0) failed.
> Aborted
>
> END_output
>
> However, if i removed the nxrrset, the update would go though.
>
> thanks,
> Andy