nsdupate add delete order.

[Kevin Darcy]

"Cinense, Mark" wrote:

> When doing an update add or update delete using nsupdate, which should you
> do first add or delete when you modify record information.  Does it even
> matter what order you do it in.  I am trying to automate the nsupdate
> process for our static files that get shipped every hour to me, and dynamic
> dns is going to be important.

RFC 2136, Section 3.4.2 ("Update")

The Update Section is parsed into RRs and these RRs are processed in order.

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So, yes, order matters. If you add/delete, you'll end up with no record
afterwards (assuming value-independent operations). That's probably not what
you want.


- Kevin