nsupdate strangeness v 9.2.3 vs. 9.3.x / 9.4.x

[Mark Andrews]

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> Greetings,
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> The setting behind:
> 
> My DNS server runs server software isc-bind with version 9.4.x (the most
> recent version).
> 
> My dial up host runs bind v 9.2.3 and the nsupdate program coming with it.
> When trying to use the 9.4.x (or 9.3.x) distribution and the nsupdate
> program coming with it, I am experiencing the following problem for quite a
> while now. When I try to update my zone entry
> 
> nsupdate -d -k $KEY
> >server $SERVER
> >zone $ZONE
> >update add @ $TTL2 A $IPADDR
> >send
> 
> I allways get the error message
> 
> client xy.xy.xy.xy#8346: updating zone 'floppy.org/IN': update failed:
> update RR is outside zone (NOTZONE)
> 
> Other update directives work fine, just this one doesn't, BUT !!!
> 
> The nsupdate version from the 9.2.3 distribution works perfectly fine, but
> when trying to use the version from 9.4.x, I get the above error message.
> 
> Has anybody any clue as to why???

	We needed to fix BIND 8 compatability.  In BIND 8 all names
	were treated as fully qualified.

1556.   [bug]           nsupdate now treats all names as fully qualified. 
                        [RT #6427]

	We removed looking at resolv.conf to set a default origin and
	also removed zone setting the origin as a side effect.  One
	could add a command to set the origin explicitly if it was
	needed.

	In the mean time use

		update add $ZONE $TTL2 A $IPADDR

	Mark

> The zonefile on the 9.4.x bind server looks like this:
> 
> $ORIGIN .
> $TTL 36000      ; 10 hours
> floppy.org              IN SOA  outpost.post-peine.de. floppy.floppy.org. (
>                                 2007030319 ; serial
>                                 36000      ; refresh (10 hours)
>                                 3600       ; retry (1 hour)
>                                 2419200    ; expire (4 weeks)
>                                 86400      ; minimum (1 day)
>                                 )
> $TTL 360000     ; 4 days 4 hours
>                         NS      outpost.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de.
>                         NS      outpost.post-peine.de.
>                         NS      service.post-peine.de.
> $TTL 3600       ; 1 hour
>                         A       82.82.71.36
> $TTL 360000     ; 4 days 4 hours
>                         MX      50 outpost.post-peine.de.
>                         MX      100 outpost.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de.
> $ORIGIN floppy.org.
> $TTL 14400      ; 4 hours
> ftp                     CNAME   moria
> ...
> 
> Any pointer would be appreciated. Basically I could live with v 9.2.3
> running here, but you know...
> 
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