Win32 nsupdate.exe variable expansion

[Danny Mayer]

At 04:47 PM 9/11/2004, Raymond wrote:
>Utilizing Win32 version of Bind9 nsupdate.exe to push Win2K/XP client rr's to
>a Linux hosted Bind9.
>
>Would like to use Win32 system variables such as COMPUTERNAME and a couple of
>other application specific system vars in the nsupdate configuration script
>for a generic configuration.
>
>How does one utilize Windows environment and system vars within the nsupdate
>configuration file.
>
>Attempted update add %COMPUTERNAME%.<dns suffix> <ttl> <class> <type> <data>
>but a literal '%COMPUTERNAME%' is added with no variable expansion. Also
>attempted *nix shell style $<varname> and ${<varname>}, to no avail.

This is the wrong place to have a discussion on how to write DOS bat files.
I also recommend Perl for scripting.

Danny

>Help please
>--
>Raymond