Another nsupdate question?

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Tue Jun 11 22:39:52 UTC 2002


"Cinense, Mark" wrote:

> If I have an A record of:
>
> www                     IN A 192.168.1.1
>
> and CNAME records of:
>
> w3                      IN CNAME www
> ftp                     IN CNAME www
> ssh                     IN CNAME www
>
> and I do nsupdate, to change www to a different Canonical name:
>
> nsupdate
>
> update delete www.domain.org <http://www.domain.org> . IN A 192.168.1.1

(How did that hyperlink automagically appear in your "nsupdate" command,
by the way?)

> update add wwf.domain.org. IN A 192.168.1.1
>
> How would I handle the aliases w3, ftp, and ssh?

Assuming that you want them to "follow", you'd delete them and re-add them
pointing to the new canonical name.


- Kevin





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