libbind 6.0

[Mark Andrews]

In message <6134BB3286A31D4DB61E57114E8BA7C09152EB2D at SEAEMBX01.olympus.F5Net.co
m>, Jack Tavares writes:
> I haven't seen any answer on list, so I am resending in case 
> it got lost in "late Friday afternoon" mail queue.
> 
> Thank you:
> 
> 
> I have been using libbind(6.0) to do dynamic updates via
> res_mkupdate()
> 
> libbind is not currently under development.
> 
> Is there are replacement in bind9 that I should move to?
> 
> I see the LWRES but that does not appear to have any update support.

Libdns can be used to construct UPDATE (or any other concievable)
message.  It can also be use to send the request or you can manage
that seperately.  bin/nsupdate/nsupdate.c uses libdns to do this.

Yes, I know libdns documentation is sorry lacking.

Mark
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