delete CNAME

[Barry Margolin]

In article <ab8ser$7cmf$1 at isrv4.isc.org>,
Paola <alessandrarossi at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>Hello,
>I want to purge my dns and delete the CNAME's.
>I have some problems deleting the CNAME of a host
>that doesn't exist, using BIND 8.1.2
>
># nsupdate -v
>> update delete tisana.paola.it CNAME
>> 
>Res_send: socket is 3, addr is 1073757424
>unknown response: ans=1, auth=1, add=0, rcode=3
>failed update packet
>
>
>Anyone can help me?

rcode=3 is NXDOMAIN, which means that there's no entry named
tisana.paola.it on the server.

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